expeditio

Latin

Etymology

From expedio (“bring forward”) +‎ -tio (“noun forming suffix”).

Noun

expedītiō f (genitive expedītiōnis); third declension

1. expedition, campaign, mission
2. march
3. (Christianity) mission: an evangelical campaign in a foreign land.
   • 1615, Nicolas Trigault & al., De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas...

     On the Christian Mission among the Chinese...

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	expedītiō	expedītiōnēs
Genitive	expedītiōnis	expedītiōnum
Dative	expedītiōnī	expedītiōnibus
Accusative	expedītiōnem	expedītiōnēs
Ablative	expedītiōne	expedītiōnibus
Vocative	expedītiō	expedītiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: expedició
• Dutch: expeditie
• English: expedition
• French: expédition
• German: Expedition

• Italian: espedizione
• Norwegian: ekspedisjon
• Portuguese: expedição
• Russian: экспедиция (ekspedicija)
• Spanish: expedición

References

• “expeditio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “expeditio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• expeditio 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)
• expeditio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to go to war, commence a campaign: proficisci ad bellum, in expeditionem (Sall. Iug. 103)