excessus

Latin

Noun

excessus m (genitive excessūs); fourth declension

1. departure

   Synonyms: recessus, sēcessiō, cessiō, dēcessiō, recessiō, discessus, discessiō, ēgressus, excessiō, dīgressiō, dīgressus, dēcessus, sēcessus

   Antonyms: prōgressus, prōgressiō, prōcessus, prōcessiō, accessus, accessiō

2. demise, death
3. digression
4. deviation, aberration

   Synonyms: dēviātiō, dīgressiō, ēgressiō, ēgressus, dēverticulum

5. (Medieval Latin) punishment, redress, compensation

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	excessus	excessūs
Genitive	excessūs	excessuum
Dative	excessuī	excessibus
Accusative	excessum	excessūs
Ablative	excessū	excessibus
Vocative	excessus	excessūs

Descendants

• Catalan: excés
• French: excès
• Italian: eccesso
• Portuguese: excesso
• Russian: эксцесс (ekscess)
• Spanish: exceso

References

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