secessus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of sēcēdō (“I withdraw, rebel”).

Participle

sēcessus (feminine sēcessa, neuter sēcessum); first/second-declension participle

1. withdrawn
2. seceded
3. rebelled

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	sēcessus	sēcessa	sēcessum		sēcessī	sēcessae	sēcessa
Genitive	sēcessī	sēcessae	sēcessī		sēcessōrum	sēcessārum	sēcessōrum
Dative	sēcessō		sēcessō		sēcessīs
Accusative	sēcessum	sēcessam	sēcessum		sēcessōs	sēcessās	sēcessa
Ablative	sēcessō	sēcessā	sēcessō		sēcessīs
Vocative	sēcesse	sēcessa	sēcessum		sēcessī	sēcessae	sēcessa

Etymology 2

From sēcēdō (I withdraw, rebel) +‎ -tus (noun formation suffix).

Noun

sēcessus m (genitive sēcessūs); fourth declension

1. withdrawal, retreat, recess, solitude

   Synonyms: recessus, sēcessiō, cessiō, dēcessiō, recessiō, discessus, discessiō, ēgressus, excessiō, dīgressiō, dīgressus, excessus, dēcessus

   Antonyms: prōgressus, prōgressiō, prōcessus, prōcessiō, accessus, accessiō

2. privy, cesspool

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sēcessus	sēcessūs
Genitive	sēcessūs	sēcessuum
Dative	sēcessuī	sēcessibus
Accusative	sēcessum	sēcessūs
Ablative	sēcessū	sēcessibus
Vocative	sēcessus	sēcessūs

References

• “secessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “secessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• secessus 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)
• secessus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.