excessus

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Latin

Noun

excessus m (genitive excessūs); fourth declension

  1. departure
    Synonyms: recessus, sēcessiō, cessiō, dēcessiō, recessiō, discessus, discessiō, ēgressus, excessiō, dīgressiō, dīgressus, dēcessus, sēcessus
    Antonyms: prōgressus, prōgressiō, prōcessus, prōcessiō, accessus, accessiō
  2. demise, death
  3. digression
  4. deviation, aberration
    Synonyms: dēviātiō, dīgressiō, ēgressiō, ēgressus, dēverticulum
  5. (Medieval Latin) punishment, redress, compensation

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative excessus excessūs
genitive excessūs excessuum
dative excessuī excessibus
accusative excessum excessūs
ablative excessū excessibus
vocative excessus excessūs

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.