processus
English
Etymology
Latin prōcessus
Noun
processus (plural processus)
- A process, or projecting part.
Anagrams
- corpusses
French
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin prōcessus (“process, progression”). Doublet of procès, another borrowing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁɔ.sɛ.sys/, /pʁɔ.se.sys/
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Noun
processus m (plural processus)
- a process
Derived terms
- processus léger
Further reading
- “processus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of prōcēdō (“advance, proceed”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /proːˈkes.sus/, [proːˈkɛs̠ːʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /proˈt͡ʃes.sus/, [proˈt͡ʃɛsːus]
Participle
prōcessus (feminine prōcessa, neuter prōcessum); first/second-declension participle
- advanced, having been advanced
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | prōcessus | prōcessa | prōcessum | prōcessī | prōcessae | prōcessa | |
| Genitive | prōcessī | prōcessae | prōcessī | prōcessōrum | prōcessārum | prōcessōrum | |
| Dative | prōcessō | prōcessō | prōcessīs | ||||
| Accusative | prōcessum | prōcessam | prōcessum | prōcessōs | prōcessās | prōcessa | |
| Ablative | prōcessō | prōcessā | prōcessō | prōcessīs | |||
| Vocative | prōcesse | prōcessa | prōcessum | prōcessī | prōcessae | prōcessa | |
Noun
prōcessus m (genitive prōcessūs); fourth declension
- A course, progression, progress, process, advance.
- Synonyms: prōgressus, prōgressiō, prōcessiō
- Antonyms: dēcessiō, cessiō, recessiō, sēcessiō
- (by extension) An elapsing, passing away, lapse.
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | prōcessus | prōcessūs |
| Genitive | prōcessūs | prōcessuum |
| Dative | prōcessuī | prōcessibus |
| Accusative | prōcessum | prōcessūs |
| Ablative | prōcessū | prōcessibus |
| Vocative | prōcessus | prōcessūs |
Derived terms
- processio
Descendants
Descendants of processus in other languages
- → Catalan: procés
- → Spanish: procés
- English: process
- French: processus, procès
- German: Prozess
- Irish: próis
- Italian: processo
- Portuguese: processo
- Romanian: proces, purces
- Russian: проце́сс (procéss)
- Spanish: proceso
References
- “processus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “processus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- processus 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)
- processus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- processus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016