Latin

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Etymology

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From expediō (bring forward) +‎ -tiō (noun forming suffix).

Noun

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expedītiō f (genitive expedītiōnis); third declension

  1. expedition, campaign, mission
  2. march
  3. (Christianity) mission: an evangelical campaign in a foreign land.

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative expedītiō expedītiōnēs
genitive expedītiōnis expedītiōnum
dative expedītiōnī expedītiōnibus
accusative expedītiōnem expedītiōnēs
ablative expedītiōne expedītiōnibus
vocative expedītiō expedītiōnēs

Descendants

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References

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  • expeditio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • expeditio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • expeditio 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)
  • expeditio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to go to war, commence a campaign: proficisci ad bellum, in expeditionem (Sall. Iug. 103)