Latin

Noun

expedītio f ‎(genitive expedītiōnis); third declension

1. expedition, campaign
2. march
3. (Christianity) mission: an evangelical campaign in a foreign land.
   • 1615, Nicolas Trigault & al., De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas...

     On the Christian Mission among the Chinese...

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “expeditio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to go to war, commence a campaign: proficisci ad bellum, in expeditionem (Sall. Iug. 103)