accusatio

English

Etymology

From Latin. Doublet of accusation.

Noun

accusatio (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) Categoria.

Anagrams


Latin

Etymology

From accūsō (blame, accuse) + -tiō, from ad (to, towards, at) + causa (cause, reason, account, lawsuit).

Pronunciation

Noun

accūsātiō f (genitive accūsātiōnis); third declension

  1. An accusation, indictment, complaint.
  2. A rebuke, reproof, reproach.

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative accūsātiō accūsātiōnēs
Genitive accūsātiōnis accūsātiōnum
Dative accūsātiōnī accūsātiōnibus
Accusative accūsātiōnem accūsātiōnēs
Ablative accūsātiōne accūsātiōnibus
Vocative accūsātiō accūsātiōnēs

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Descendants

References

  • accusatio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • accusatio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • accusatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • accusatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a criminal accusation: accusatio (Cael. 3. 6)
  • accusatio in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • accusatio in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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