discursus

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin discursus. Doublet of discourse.

Noun edit

discursus (plural discursuses)

(logic) argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “discursus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin edit

Etymology edit

discurrō +‎ -tus.

Noun edit

discursus m (genitive discursūs); fourth declension

running about (or to and fro)

Declension edit

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	discursus	discursūs
Genitive	discursūs	discursuum
Dative	discursuī	discursibus
Accusative	discursum	discursūs
Ablative	discursū	discursibus
Vocative	discursus	discursūs

Related terms edit

discurro

Descendants edit

Catalan: discurs
Dalmatian: discuars
English: discourse
French: discours
Italian: discorso
Portuguese: discurso
Romanian: discurs
Sardinian: discursu
Spanish: discurso
Welsh: sgwrs

References edit

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