I remember when I was a little kid in school learning about Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul. The terms have been around for decades!
on this side of; on the side
nearer to the speaker.
or
denoting molecules with
cis arrangements of
substituents.
Not for soylent green, or at least not in at all common usage.
But fuck man, those Trans want everything. They have Alpine Gaul, Nistria, ylvania, highways, pipelines, their own fats. WIth the ghey they got homo milk, well that and the steel, railroad and aeronautic industries.