discursus
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin
Noun
discursus (plural discursuses)
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(See the entry for “discursus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Etymology
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From discurrō.
Noun
discursus m (genitive discursūs); fourth declension
- running about (or to and fro)
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | discursus | discursūs |
Genitive | discursūs | discursuum |
Dative | discursuī | discursibus |
Accusative | discursum | discursūs |
Ablative | discursū | discursibus |
Vocative | discursus | discursūs |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “discursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “discursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- discursus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- discursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.