expeditio
Latin
Etymology
From expedio (“bring forward”) + -tio (“noun forming suffix”).
Noun
expedītiō f (genitive expedītiōnis); third declension
- expedition, campaign, mission
- march
- (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...
- 1615, Nicolas Trigault & al., De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas...
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)
- to go to war, commence a campaign: proficisci ad bellum, in expeditionem (Sall. Iug. 103)