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Latin
Etymology
Perfect active participle of ēgredior, equivalent to ex- + gressus.
Pronunciation
Noun
ēgressus m (genitive ēgressūs); fourth declension
- A departure, going out.
- Synonyms: recessus, sēcessiō, cessiō, dēcessiō, recessiō, discessus, discessiō, excessiō, dīgressiō, dīgressus, excessus, dēcessus, sēcessus
- Antonyms: prōgressus, prōgressiō, prōcessus, prōcessiō, accessus, accessiō
- A disembarking, disembarkation
- (figuratively) A digression.
- Synonyms: ēgressiō, dīgressiō, dēviātiō, dēverticulum
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
Participle
ēgressus (feminine ēgressa, neuter ēgressum); first/second-declension participle
- marched or stepped out
- disembarked
- ascended
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “egressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “egressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- egressus 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)
- egressus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be more than ten years old, to have entered on one's eleventh year: decimum annum excessisse, egressum esse