discursus

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin discursus. Doublet of discourse.

Noun

discursus (plural discursuses)

  1. (logic) argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “discursus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

discurrō +‎ -tus.

Noun

discursus m (genitive discursūs); fourth declension

  1. running about (or to and fro)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative discursus discursūs
Genitive discursūs discursuum
Dative discursuī discursibus
Accusative discursum discursūs
Ablative discursū discursibus
Vocative discursus discursūs

Descendants

References

  • “discursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “discursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • discursus 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)
  • discursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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