accidens

== English == === Etymology === From Latin [Term?]. === Noun === accidens (plural accidentia) (logic) Synonym of accident (“a property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive”). ==== Related terms ==== == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Present active participle of accidō (“fall down or upon; happen”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈak.kɪ.dẽːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈat.t͡ʃi.dens] ==== Participle ==== accidēns (genitive accidentis); third-declension one-termination participle falling down, upon, at or near, descending happening (to), taking place, occurring, befalling ===== Declension ===== Third-declension participle. 1When used purely as an adjective. ==== Noun ==== accidēns n (genitive accidentis); third declension accident, circumstance (chance event) 1695, Teutsch-Lateinisches WörterBüchlein Zum Nutz und Ergötzung der Schuljugend zusammengetragen, Und mit 6000. darzu dienlichen Bildern gezieret. Deme noch über das eine kurtzgefaste Lateinische Sprach-Übung Und Zimliche Anzahl Auserlesener Sprüche beygefüget. — Dictionariolum germanico-latinum In Usum & delectationem Scholasticae Juventutis concinnatum, & aliquot millibus huic rei inservientibus Iconibus illustratum. Cui insuper accessit, Epitome Grammatices Latinae cum selectarum Sententiarum Farragine., Nuremberg (Nürnberg, Noriberga), p.197: ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem). ===== Descendants ===== Catalan: accident → Dutch: toeval (calque) English: accident French: accident German: Akzidens n, Akzidenz n; Zufall m (calque) Italian: accidente Ligurian: açidente Portuguese: acidente Romanian: accident Spanish: accidente === Etymology 2 === Form of the verb accīdō (“fell, cut down; use up; impair”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [akˈkiː.dẽːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [atˈt͡ʃiː.dens] ==== Participle ==== accīdēns (genitive accīdentis); third-declension one-termination participle using up, consuming, diminishing impairing, weakening, shattering ===== Declension ===== Third-declension participle. 1When used purely as an adjective. === References === “accidens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “accidens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. == Middle French == === Noun === accidens m plural of accident