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English
Etymology
From Latin. Doublet of accusation.
Noun
accusatio (uncountable)
- (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
- An accusation, indictment, complaint.
- A rebuke, reproof, reproach.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Synonyms
- (accusation): catēgoria, crīmen, crīminātiō, dēlātūra, imputātiō
- (reproach): animadversiō, convīcium, crīmen, culpātiō, exprōbrātiō, improperium, obiectātiō, opprōbrium
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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, 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