recessus

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [rɛˈkɛs.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [reˈt͡ʃɛs.sus] === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of recēdō (“to go back, give ground, retire, withdraw”). ==== Participle ==== recessus (feminine recessa, neuter recessum, adverb recessim); first/second-declension participle perfect passive participle of recēdō drawn back, receding; standing farther back ===== Inflection ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === From recēdō (“to go back, give ground, retire, withdraw”) + -tus (action noun suffix). ==== Noun ==== recessus m (genitive recessūs); fourth declension a going back, receding, retiring, retreat, departure Synonyms: sēcessiō, cessiō, dēcessiō, recessiō, discessus, discessiō, ēgressus, excessiō, dīgressiō, dīgressus, excessus, dēcessus, sēcessus Antonyms: prōgressus, prōgressiō, prōcessus, prōcessiō, accessus, accessiō (metonymic) a distant, retired, secluded or secret spot; a nook, corner, retreat, recess Synonyms: sēcessus, sēcrētum (figurative) retreat, withdrawal (New Latin, anatomy) recess recessus saccifōrmis ― sacciform recess ===== Inflection ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== === References === “recessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “recessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "recessus", 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) “recessus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.