English

Noun

accusatio ‎(uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) Categoria.

Latin

Etymology

From accūsō ‎(“blame, accuse”) +‎ -tiō, from ad ‎(“to, towards, at”) + causa ‎(“cause, reason, account, lawsuit”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ak.kuːˈsaː.ti.oː/

Noun

accūsātiō f ‎(genitive accūsātiōnis); third declension

1. An accusation, indictment, complaint.
2. A rebuke, reproof, reproach.

Inflection

Third declension.

Synonyms

• (accusation): catēgoria, crīmen, crīminātiō, dēlātūra, imputātiō
• (reproach): animadversiō, convīcium, crīmen, culpātiō, exprōbrātiō, improperium, obiectātiō, opprōbrium

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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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “accusatio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a criminal accusation: accusatio (Cael. 3. 6)
    
• 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