excusatio

Latin

Etymology

From excūsō (“I excuse”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ek.skuːˈsaː.ti.oː/, [ɛks̠kuːˈs̠äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.skuˈsat.t͡si.o/, [ekskuˈs̬ät̪ː͡s̪io]

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’s 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