recessus
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Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /reˈkes.sus/, [rɛˈkɛs̠ːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈt͡ʃes.sus/, [reˈt͡ʃɛsːus]
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of recēdō (“to go back, give ground, retire, withdraw”).
Participle
recessus (feminine recessa, neuter recessum, adverb recessim); first/second-declension participle
- perfect passive participle of recēdō
- drawn back, receding; standing farther back
Inflection
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | recessus | recessa | recessum | recessī | recessae | recessa | |
Genitive | recessī | recessae | recessī | recessōrum | recessārum | recessōrum | |
Dative | recessō | recessō | recessīs | ||||
Accusative | recessum | recessam | recessum | recessōs | recessās | recessa | |
Ablative | recessō | recessā | recessō | recessīs | |||
Vocative | recesse | recessa | recessum | recessī | recessae | recessa |
Etymology 2
From recēdō (“to go back, give ground, retire, withdraw”) + -tus (action noun suffix).
Noun
recessus m (genitive recessūs); fourth declension
- a going back, receding, retiring, retreat, departure
- (figurative) retreat, withdrawal
Inflection
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | recessus | recessūs |
Genitive | recessūs | recessuum |
Dative | recessuī | recessibus |
Accusative | recessum | recessūs |
Ablative | recessū | recessibus |
Vocative | recessus | recessūs |
Descendants
Descendants
References
- “recessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “recessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- recessus 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)
- recessus 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
- ebb and flow (of tide): accessus et recessus aestuum
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