The story
- Latin · borrowed fromexcursiō“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”
- English todayexcursion
Borrowed from Latin excursiō (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”). By surface analysis, excurse + -ion. Compare excursus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.