accessus

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English

Etymology

From 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.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	accessus	accessa	accessum	accessī	accessae	accessa
genitive	accessī	accessae	accessī	accessōrum	accessārum	accessōrum
dative	accessō	accessae	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

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- ebb and flow (of tide): accessus et recessus aestuum