excelso

excelso is a Latin form of excello, meaning “excel, be distinguished; (excelsus) high, lofty”.

It can also be a form of excelsum, “height, high place/ground/altitude; eminence; high position/rank/station”. It is the ablative singular neuter noun or perfect passive participle ablative singular neuter or perfect passive participle ablative singular masculine.

Found 46 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.42.4: Res enim gerebatur et excelso loco et in conspectu exercitus nostri, magnusque utrimque clamor oriebatur.

All forms of excello (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.