excellens

Present participle of excellō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eksˈkel.lens/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eksˈt͡ʃel.lens/,

excellēns (genitive excellentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. elevating, rising
2. exulting
3. excelling, surpassing

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

excellēns (genitive excellentis, comparative excellentior, superlative excellentissimus, adverb excellenter); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. distinguished

   Synonyms: cōnspicuus, distīnctus, eximius, ēgregius, īnsignis, praecipuus, nōbilis

2. excellent

   Synonym: pulcher

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

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

Borrowed from Latin excellēns. Doublet of excellera and par excellence.

excellens c

1. Excellency (form of address for certain dignitaries)
2. excellence

• excellens in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• excellens in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)