accessus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin accessus. Doublet of access. === Noun === accessus (uncountable) (Christianity, historical) In electing a pope, a method by which cardinals could change their most recent vote to accede to another candidate in an attempt to reach the necessary two-thirds majority and end the conclave. == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Perfect participle of accēdō (“I approach, advance”). ==== Participle ==== accessus (feminine accessa, neuter accessum); first/second-declension participle approached, reached advanced, attacked ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === From accēdō (“I approach, advance”) +‎ -tus (“forms nouns from verbs designating the result of an action”). ==== Noun ==== accessus m (genitive accessūs); fourth declension approach, arrival entry, admittance, audience onset ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== === References === “accessus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “accessus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “accessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "accessus", 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) “accessus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.