accusatio

English

Etymology

From Latin. Doublet of accusation.

Noun

accusatio (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) Categoria.

Anagrams

• acoustica

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ak.kuːˈsaː.ti.oː/, [äkːuːˈs̠äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ak.kuˈsat.t͡si.o/, [äkːuˈs̬ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

accūsātiō f (genitive accūsātiōnis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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

Synonyms

• (accusation): catēgoria, crīmen, crīminātiō, dēlātūra, imputātiō
• (reproach): animadversiō, convīcium, crīmen, culpātiō, exprōbrātiō, improperium, obiectātiō, opprōbrium

Related terms

• accūsābilis
• accūsātīvus
• accūsātor
• accūsātōriē
• accūsātōrius
• accūsātrīx
• accūsitō
• accūsō

Descendants

• English: accusation
• Old French: ochoison, achoison, achaison
  • French: achoison
  • Gallo: achaison
• French: accusation
• → Galician: acusación
• Italian: accusazione
• → Portuguese: acusação
• Romanian: acuzație
• → Spanish: acusación
  • → Cebuano: akusasyon

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• accusatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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