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Latin
Noun
excessus m (genitive excessūs); fourth declension
- departure
- Synonyms: recessus, sēcessiō, cessiō, dēcessiō, recessiō, discessus, discessiō, ēgressus, excessiō, dīgressiō, dīgressus, dēcessus, sēcessus
- Antonyms: prōgressus, prōgressiō, prōcessus, prōcessiō, accessus, accessiō
- demise, death
- digression
- deviation, aberration
- Synonyms: dēviātiō, dīgressiō, ēgressiō, ēgressus, dēverticulum
- (Medieval Latin) punishment, redress, compensation
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “excessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “excessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- excessus 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)
- excessus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.