English
excursion
Excursion comes from Latin excursiō ‘a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting…’, and goes back to excurrere.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcurrere‘to run out’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcursiō‘a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech’
- Englishearliest quotation 1852excursion
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcurrere‘to run out’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcursiō‘a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech’
- Englishearliest quotation 1852excursion
Earliest quotation: 1852, Herman Melville: “Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel…”
A compound of ex ‘out’ + currere ‘to run’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out’
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex ‘out’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- ‘to run’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥s-é-ti
Proto-Italic *korzō ‘to run’
Latin currō ‘to run’
Every English word from Latin excurrere
Today it means
noun A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin excurrere / excursion