abscessio

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /abˈskes.si.oː/, [äpˈs̠kɛs̠ːioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈʃes.si.o/, [äbˈʃɛsːio]

Noun

abscessiō f (genitive abscessiōnis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	abscessiō	abscessiōnēs
Genitive	abscessiōnis	abscessiōnum
Dative	abscessiōnī	abscessiōnibus
Accusative	abscessiōnem	abscessiōnēs
Ablative	abscessiōne	abscessiōnibus
Vocative	abscessiō	abscessiōnēs

References

• “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