excursus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin excursus (“excursion”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ɛkˈskɝsəs/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɛkˈskɜːsəs/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)səs
Noun
[edit]excursus (plural excursuses or excursus)
- A fuller treatment (in a separate section) of a particular part of the text of a book, especially a classic.
- A narrative digression, especially to discuss a particular issue.
- 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin, published 2001, page 204:
- Here is what us scholars call an excursus. If you are an honest man the following page or two can be of no possible interest to you.
- 2007, Glen Bowersock, “Provocateur”, in London Review of Books, 29:4, p. 16:
- In his excursus on the Jewish people at the opening of the fifth book of his Histories [...], Tacitus was at a loss to uncover any deep cause for the war that broke out in 66.
Related terms
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perfect passive participle of excurrō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ekˈskur.sus/, [ɛkˈs̠kʊrs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈskur.sus/, [ekˈskursus]
Participle
[edit]excursus (feminine excursa, neuter excursum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | excursus | excursa | excursum | excursī | excursae | excursa | |
Genitive | excursī | excursae | excursī | excursōrum | excursārum | excursōrum | |
Dative | excursō | excursō | excursīs | ||||
Accusative | excursum | excursam | excursum | excursōs | excursās | excursa | |
Ablative | excursō | excursā | excursō | excursīs | |||
Vocative | excurse | excursa | excursum | excursī | excursae | excursa |
Descendants
[edit]Noun
[edit]excursus m (genitive excursūs); fourth declension
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | excursus | excursūs |
Genitive | excursūs | excursuum |
Dative | excursuī | excursibus |
Accusative | excursum | excursūs |
Ablative | excursū | excursibus |
Vocative | excursus | excursūs |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “excursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “excursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- excursus 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)
- excursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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