Latin

Noun

dīgressiō f ‎(genitive dīgressiōnis); third declension

1. parting, separating; departing, departure
2. deviation; digression

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• French: digression
• Portuguese: digressão
• Spanish: digresión

References

• digressio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• digressio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “digressio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a digression, episode: digressus, digressio, egressio