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accentus

accentus

Latin

Noun

accentus m ‎(genitive accentūs); fourth declension

Declension

Fourth declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	accentus	accentūs
genitive	accentūs	accentuum
dative	accentuī	accentibus
accusative	accentum	accentūs
ablative	accentū	accentibus
vocative	accentus	accentūs

Derived terms

accentus acūtus
accentus circumflexus
accentus gravis

Related terms

Descendants

Albanian: aksent
Aragonese: accento
Basque: azentu
Belarusian: акцэнт ‎(akcent)
Bulgarian: акцент ‎(akcent)
Catalan: accent
Czech: akcent
Danish: accent
Dutch: accent
English: accent
Esperanto: akcento
Estonian: aktsent

Finnish: aksentti
French: accent
Galician: acento
German: Akzent
Hungarian: akcentus
Ido: acento, achento
Indonesian: aksen
Interlingua: accento
Italian: accento
Japanese: アクセント ‎(akusento)
Lithuanian: akcentas
Macedonian: акцент ‎(akcent)
Norwegian: aksent

Occitan: accent
Old Prussian: akcēnts
Polish: akcent
Portuguese: acento
Romanian: accent
Russian: акцент ‎(akcent)
Sardinian: atzentu
Serbo-Croatian: акценат (akcenat)
Sicilian: accentu
Spanish: acento
Swedish: accent
Turkish: aksan
Ukrainian: акцент ‎(akcent)

References

accentus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ACCENTUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “accentŭs”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 15/3.
“accentus” on page 19 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)