accentus
Latin
Etymology
From accinō (“sing to”), from ad- + canō (“sing”), a calque of Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “song sung to music; pronunciation of syllable”), from πρός (prós, “to”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /akˈken.tus/, [äkˈkɛn̪t̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /atˈt͡ʃen.tus/, [ätˈt͡ʃɛn̪t̪us]
Noun
accentus m (genitive accentūs); fourth declension
- a blast, signal
- (phonology) accent, tone, accentuation
- (figuratively) intensity, violence
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | accentus | accentūs |
| Genitive | accentūs | accentuum |
| Dative | accentuī | accentibus |
| Accusative | accentum | accentūs |
| Ablative | accentū | accentibus |
| Vocative | accentus | accentūs |
Derived terms
- accentus acūtus
- accentus circumflexus
- accentus gravis
Related terms
- accentor
- accinō
Descendants
- → Albanian: aksent
- → Aragonese: accento
- → Basque: azentu
- → Belarusian: акцэнт (akcent)
- → Bulgarian: акцент (akcent)
- → Catalan: accent
- → Czech: akcent
- → Danish: accent
- → Dutch: accent
- → Esperanto: akcento
- → Estonian: aktsent
- → Finnish: aksentti
- Galician: acento
- → German: Akzent
- → Hungarian: akcentus
- → Ido: acento, achento
- → Indonesian: aksen
- → Interlingua: accento
- Italian: accento
- → Lithuanian: akcentas
- → Macedonian: акцент (akcent)
- Occitan: accent
- → Old English: accent
- Old French: acent
- Middle French: accent
- French: accent
- → Danish: accent
- → Norwegian Bokmål: accent, aksent
- → Turkish: aksan
- → Middle English: accent
- English: accent
- → Japanese: アクセント (akusento)
- English: accent
- French: accent
- Norman: accent
- Middle French: accent
- → Old Irish: aiccend, aiccent
- Irish: aiceann
- Scottish Gaelic: aicinn
- → Old Prussian: akcēnts
- → Polish: akcent (learned)
- → Portuguese: acento
- → Romanian: accent
- → Russian: акцент (akcent)
- Sardinian: atzentu
- → Serbo-Croatian: акценат (akcenat)
- → Sicilian: accentu
- → Spanish: acento
- → Swedish: accent
- → Ukrainian: акцент (akcent)
References
- “accentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- accentus 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)
- accentŭs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 15/3
- “accentus” on page 19 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)