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Latin
Etymology
From abscēdō (“go away, recede”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
abscessiō f (genitive abscessiōnis); third declension
- a going away, a separating
- diminution
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) apostasy
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “abscessĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abscessio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abscessio 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)
- abscessio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Souter, Alexander (1949) “abscessio”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D., 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 2