discursatio

From discursō +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɪs.kʊrˈsaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪is.kurˈsat̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]

discursātiō f (genitive discursātiōnis); third declension

1. a running hither and thither, a running about
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De Brevitate Vitae 3.2
   • c. 100 CE — c. 170 CE, Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Strategemata, 1.5 .28
   • c. 240 CE — c. 320 CE, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius, De Opificio Dei, 1.5.28
   • c. 160 CE – c. 225 CE, Tertullian, Apologeticus 39

Third-declension noun.

• “discursatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “discursatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.