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Latin
Etymology
From expediō (“bring forward”) + -tiō (noun forming suffix).
Noun
expedītiō f (genitive expedītiōnis); third declension
- expedition, campaign, mission
- march
- (Christianity) mission: an evangelical campaign in a foreign land.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “expeditio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “expeditio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- expeditio 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)
- expeditio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to go to war, commence a campaign: proficisci ad bellum, in expeditionem (Sall. Iug. 103)