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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of dēcēdō.
Pronunciation
Participle
dēcessus (feminine dēcessa, neuter dēcessum); first/second-declension participle
- withdrawn, retired, departed, left
- Synonyms: recessus, sēcessiō, cessiō, dēcessiō, recessiō, discessus, discessiō, ēgressus, excessiō, dīgressiō, dīgressus, excessus, sēcessus
- Antonyms: prōgressus, prōgressiō, prōcessus, prōcessiō, accessus, accessiō
- relinquished
- deserted
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Noun
dēcessus m (genitive dēcessūs); fourth declension
- departure
- retirement
- passing away, death
- decline, fall, ebb
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
References
- “decessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “decessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- decessus 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)
- decessus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.