secessus
Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of sēcēdō (“I withdraw, rebel”).
Participle
sēcessus (feminine sēcessa, neuter sēcessum); first/second-declension participle
- withdrawn
- seceded
- 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
- 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
- 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