accusatio

== English == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Latin. Doublet of accusation. === Noun === accusatio (uncountable) (rhetoric) Categoria. === Anagrams === acoustica == Latin == === Etymology === From accūsō (“blame, accuse”) +‎ -tiō, from ad (“to, towards, at”) + causa (“cause, reason, account, lawsuit”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ak.kuːˈsaː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ak.kuˈs̬at.t͡si.o] === 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 ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “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