accessus

English

From Latin accessus. Doublet of access.

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.

Perfect participle of accēdō (“to approach, advance”).

accessus (feminine accessa, neuter accessum); first/second-declension participle

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 tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Italic *kezdō

Latin cēdō

Latin accēdō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin accessus

From accēdō (“to approach, advance”) + -tus (“forms nouns from verbs designating the result of an action”).

accessus m (genitive accessūs); fourth declension

Fourth-declension noun.

“accessus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“accessus, -ūs”, 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, 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