assisa

== Italian == === Participle === assisa f sg feminine singular of assiso == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈas.sɪ.sa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈas.si.s̬a] === Etymology 1 === By metaplasm from accessus (“approach”). ==== Noun ==== assisa f (genitive assisae); first declension (Late Latin) onrush of the tide (Medieval Latin, generally) the tide ===== Declension ===== First-declension noun. === Etymology 2 === From assideō (“sit by; be stationed, fixed”), probably conflated with accīdō (“cut”). Equivalent to English assize. ==== Alternative forms ==== assisia, assizia assisium n ==== Noun ==== assisa f (genitive assisae); first declension (Medieval Latin, chiefly law) session (of a court) jury sentence lawsuit statute, writ, ordinance tax, impost, tribute assembly of nobles ===== Declension ===== First-declension noun. === References === "assisa", 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) “assisa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. assisia in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ), Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “assisa”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 65