excursus

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excursus (“excursion”).

Pronunciation

Noun

excursus (plural excursuses or excursus)

  1. A fuller treatment (in a separate section) of a particular part of the text of a book, especially a classic.
  2. A narrative digression, especially to discuss a particular issue.
    • 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin, published 2001, page 204:
      Here is what us scholars call an excursus. If you are an honest man the following page or two can be of no possible interest to you.
    • 2007, Glen Bowersock, “Provocateur”, in London Review of Books, 29:4, p. 16:
      In his excursus on the Jewish people at the opening of the fifth book of his Histories [...], Tacitus was at a loss to uncover any deep cause for the war that broke out in 66.

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of excurrō.

Pronunciation

Participle

excursus (feminine excursa, neuter excursum); first/second-declension participle

  1. having been sent forth, hastened towards
  2. having been projected, extended

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative excursus excursa excursum excursī excursae excursa
Genitive excursī excursae excursī excursōrum excursārum excursōrum
Dative excursō excursō excursīs
Accusative excursum excursam excursum excursōs excursās excursa
Ablative excursō excursā excursō excursīs
Vocative excurse excursa excursum excursī excursae excursa

Descendants

  • Italian: scorso
  • Romanian: scurs
  • Sicilian: scursu

Noun

excursus m (genitive excursūs); fourth declension

  1. excursion
  2. sally, sortie, raid

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative excursus excursūs
Genitive excursūs excursuum
Dative excursuī excursibus
Accusative excursum excursūs
Ablative excursū excursibus
Vocative excursus excursūs

Derived terms

Descendants

References

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