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Latin
Etymology
From dīgredior + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
dīgressiō f (genitive dīgressiōnis); third declension
- parting, separating; departing, departure
- Synonyms: recessus, sēcessiō, cessiō, dēcessiō, recessiō, discessus, discessiō, ēgressus, excessiō, dīgressus, excessus, dēcessus, sēcessus
- Antonyms: prōgressus, prōgressiō, prōcessus, prōcessiō, accessus, accessiō
- deviation; digression
- Synonyms: ēgressiō, ēgressus, dēviātiō, dēverticulum, excessus
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “digressio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “digressio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- digressio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a digression, episode: digressus, digressio, egressio