accusatio
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin. Doublet of accusation.
Noun
editaccusatio (uncountable)
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom accūsō (“blame, accuse”) + -tiō, from ad (“to, towards, at”) + causa (“cause, reason, account, lawsuit”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ak.kuːˈsaː.ti.oː/, [äkːuːˈs̠äːt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ak.kuˈsat.t͡si.o/, [äkːuˈs̬ät̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
editaccūsātiō f (genitive accūsātiōnis); third declension
- An accusation, indictment, complaint.
- A rebuke, reproof, reproach.
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | accūsātiō | accūsātiōnēs |
Genitive | accūsātiōnis | accūsātiōnum |
Dative | accūsātiōnī | accūsātiōnibus |
Accusative | accūsātiōnem | accūsātiōnēs |
Ablative | accūsātiōne | accūsātiōnibus |
Vocative | accūsātiō | accūsātiōnēs |
Synonyms
edit- (accusation): catēgoria, crīmen, crīminātiō, dēlātūra, imputātiō
- (reproach): animadversiō, convīcium, crīmen, culpātiō, exprōbrātiō, improperium, obiectātiō, opprōbrium
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- English: accusation
- Old French: ochoison, achoison, achaison
- French: accusation
- → Galician: acusación
- Italian: accusazione
- → Portuguese: acusação
- Romanian: acuzație
- → Spanish: acusación
- → Cebuano: akusasyon
References
edit- “accusatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “accusatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- accusatio 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)
- accusatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a criminal accusation: accusatio (Cael. 3. 6)
- a criminal accusation: accusatio (Cael. 3. 6)
- “accusatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “accusatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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