English → Latin
“digression” in Latin
dēclīnātiōdeclination; inclination; avoidancedīgressiōparting, separating; departing, departure; deviation; digressionēgrediorto go or come out or forth; march or step out; to disembark, land; to ascend, mountēgressiōegress, going out; digression
The English word digression itself goes back to Latin gradior, through digressio.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
digression
declinatio; digressio; also with a proposito or a proposita oratione (☞ digressio, Freund; according to Ellendt, Cic., Brut., 21, 82, degressio): egressus or egressio (παρέκβασις; Vid: Quint., 4, 3, 12): a slight digression, brevis declinatio a proposito: but I return to the point from which I made this digression, sed unde huc digressa est, eodem redeat oratio; sed redeamus ad id, unde devertimus; sed ut eo revertar, unde sum egressus; ut eo, unde egressa est, referat se oratio also by redire ad rem propositam. He had made a digression in praise of Castor and Pollux, digressus [al. degressus] inlaudes Castoris ac Pollucis exierat (Quint.). [☞ Deverticulum; excursus; degressus are found in this sense in later writers: deverticulum, Liv., 9, 17.]
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for digression?
- The usual Latin words for “digression” are dēclīnātiō, dīgressiō, ēgredior; also ēgressiō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.