accessus
English
Etymology
Latin accessus. Doublet of access.
Noun
accessus (uncountable)
- (Christianity, historical) In electing a pope, a method by which cardinals could change their most recent vote to accede to another candidate in an attempt to reach the necessary two-thirds majority and end the conclave.
Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect participle of accēdō (“I approach, advance”).
Participle
accessus (feminine accessa, neuter accessum); first/second-declension participle
- approached, reached
- advanced, attacked
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | accessus | accessa | accessum | accessī | accessae | accessa | |
| Genitive | accessī | accessae | accessī | accessōrum | accessārum | accessōrum | |
| Dative | accessō | accessō | accessīs | ||||
| Accusative | accessum | accessam | accessum | accessōs | accessās | accessa | |
| Ablative | accessō | accessā | accessō | accessīs | |||
| Vocative | accesse | accessa | accessum | accessī | accessae | accessa | |
Etymology 2
From accēdō (“I approach, advance”) + -tus (“forms nouns from verbs designating the result of an action”).
Noun
accessus m (genitive accessūs); fourth declension
- approach, arrival
- entry, admittance, audience
- onset
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | accessus | accessūs |
| Genitive | accessūs | accessuum |
| Dative | accessuī | accessibus |
| Accusative | accessum | accessūs |
| Ablative | accessū | accessibus |
| Vocative | accessus | accessūs |
Descendants
- Catalan: accés
- English: access
- French: accès
- Galician: acceso
- Italian: accesso
- Occitan: accès
- Portuguese: acesso
- Spanish: acceso
References
- “accessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “accessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- accessus 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)
- accessus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- ebb and flow (of tide): accessus et recessus aestuum
- ebb and flow (of tide): accessus et recessus aestuum