accessus
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin accessus. Doublet of access.
Noun edit
accessus (uncountable)
- (Christianity, historical) In electing a pope, a method by which cardinals could change their most recent vote to accede to another candidate in an attempt to reach the necessary two-thirds majority and end the conclave.
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
Perfect participle of accēdō (“I approach, advance”).
Participle edit
accessus (feminine accessa, neuter accessum); first/second-declension participle
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | accessus | accessa | accessum | accessī | accessae | accessa | |
Genitive | accessī | accessae | accessī | accessōrum | accessārum | accessōrum | |
Dative | accessō | accessō | accessīs | ||||
Accusative | accessum | accessam | accessum | accessōs | accessās | accessa | |
Ablative | accessō | accessā | accessō | accessīs | |||
Vocative | accesse | accessa | accessum | accessī | accessae | accessa |
Etymology 2 edit
From accēdō (“I approach, advance”) + -tus (“forms nouns from verbs designating the result of an action”).
Noun edit
accessus m (genitive accessūs); fourth declension
Declension edit
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | accessus | accessūs |
Genitive | accessūs | accessuum |
Dative | accessuī | accessibus |
Accusative | accessum | accessūs |
Ablative | accessū | accessibus |
Vocative | accessus | accessūs |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “accessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “accessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- accessus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- accessus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- ebb and flow (of tide): accessus et recessus aestuum
- ebb and flow (of tide): accessus et recessus aestuum