discursus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin discursus. Doublet of discourse.

Noun

discursus (plural discursuses)

1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Etymology

discurrō +‎ -tus.

Noun

discursus m (genitive discursūs); fourth declension

1. running about (or to and fro)

Declension

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

• discurro

Descendants

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

References

• “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.