excursio

Latin

Etymology

excurrō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

Noun

excursiō f (genitive excursiōnis); third declension

  1. running forth
  2. sally, onset, attack

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative excursiō excursiōnēs
genitive excursiōnis excursiōnum
dative excursiōnī excursiōnibus
accusative excursiōnem excursiōnēs
ablative excursiōne excursiōnibus
vocative excursiō excursiōnēs

Descendants

  • → Catalan: excursió
  • → English: excursion
  • → French: excursion
  • → Galician: excursión
  • → Italian: escursione
  • → Piedmontese: escursion
  • → Portuguese: excursão
  • → Romanian: excursie
  • → Russian: экскурсия (ekskursija)
  • → Sicilian: scursiuni
  • → Spanish: excursión

References

  • “excursio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “excursio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • excursio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to make an inroad into hostile territory: excursionem in hostium agros facere
    • to make a sally, sortie from the town: crebras ex oppido excursiones facere (B. G. 2. 30)
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