excusatio

excusatio

Latin

Etymology

    From excūsō (to excuse) + -tiō.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    excūsātiō f (genitive excūsātiōnis); third declension

    1. excuse

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative excūsātiō excūsātiōnēs
    genitive excūsātiōnis excūsātiōnum
    dative excūsātiōnī excūsātiōnibus
    accusative excūsātiōnem excūsātiōnēs
    ablative excūsātiōne excūsātiōnibus
    vocative excūsātiō excūsātiōnēs

    Descendants

    • English: excusation
    • Italian: scusazione
    • Old French: excusacion
    • Spanish: excusación
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: escusaçon
    • Welsh: esgusod

    References

    • excusatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • excusatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "excusatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • excusatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to excuse oneself on the score of health: valetudinis excusatione uti