Latin

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Etymology

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From abscēdō (go away, recede) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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abscessiō f (genitive abscessiōnis); third declension

  1. a going away, a separating
  2. diminution
  3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) apostasy

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative abscessiō abscessiōnēs
genitive abscessiōnis abscessiōnum
dative abscessiōnī abscessiōnibus
accusative abscessiōnem abscessiōnēs
ablative abscessiōne abscessiōnibus
vocative abscessiō abscessiōnēs

References

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  • abscessĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • abscessio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • abscessio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • abscessio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Souter, Alexander (1949) “abscessio”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.[1], 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 2