excursio

Latin

Etymology

excurrō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ekˈskur.si.oː/, [ɛkˈs̠kʊrs̠ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈskur.si.o/, [ekˈskursio]

Noun

excursiō f (genitive excursiōnis); third declension

1. running forth
2. sally, onset, attack

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	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)