digressio

See also: digressió

Latin

Etymology

From dīgredior +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diːˈɡrɛs.si.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪iˈɡrɛs.si.o]

Noun

dīgressiō f (genitive dīgressiōnis); third declension

parting, separating; departing, departure
Synonyms: recessus, sēcessiō, cessiō, dēcessiō, recessiō, discessus, discessiō, ēgressus, excessiō, dīgressus, excessus, dēcessus, sēcessus

Antonyms: prōgressus, prōgressiō, prōcessus, prōcessiō, accessus, accessiō
deviation; digression
Synonyms: ēgressiō, ēgressus, dēviātiō, dēverticulum, excessus

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dīgressiō	dīgressiōnēs
genitive	dīgressiōnis	dīgressiōnum
dative	dīgressiōnī	dīgressiōnibus
accusative	dīgressiōnem	dīgressiōnēs
ablative	dīgressiōne	dīgressiōnibus
vocative	dīgressiō	dīgressiōnēs

Descendants

Catalan: digressió
French: digression
Italian: digressione
Portuguese: digressão
Romanian: digresiune
Spanish: digresión

References

“digressio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“digressio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
digressio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a digression, episode: digressus, digressio, egressio