Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#ACCUSATIOCategory:English unadapted borrowings from Latin#ACCUSATIOCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ACCUSATIO. Doublet of accusationCategory:English doublets#ACCUSATIO.

Noun

accusatio (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#ACCUSATIOCategory:English nouns#ACCUSATIOCategory:English uncountable nouns#ACCUSATIOCategory:English uncountable nouns#ACCUSATIOCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ACCUSATIOCategory:Pages with entries#ACCUSATIOCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ACCUSATIO

1. (rhetoricCategory:en:Rhetoric#ACCUSATIO) Categoria.

Anagrams

• acoustica

Etymology

From accūsō (“blame, accuse”) +‎ -tiōCategory:Latin terms suffixed with -tio#ACCUSATIO, from ad (“to, towards, at”) + causa (“cause, reason, account, lawsuit”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ak.kuːˈsaː.ti.oː]Category:Latin 5-syllable words#ACCUSATIOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#ACCUSATIO
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ak.kuˈs̬at.t͡si.o]Category:Latin 5-syllable words#ACCUSATIOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#ACCUSATIO

Noun

accūsātiō f (genitive accūsātiōnis)Category:Latin lemmas#ACCUSATIOCategory:Latin nouns#ACCUSATIOCategory:Latin third declension nouns#ACCUSATIOCategory:Latin feminine nouns in the third declension#ACCUSATIOCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ACCUSATIOCategory:Latin feminine nouns#ACCUSATIOCategory:Pages with entries#ACCUSATIOCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ACCUSATIO; third declension

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

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, 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)
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
• “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