accentus

Latin

Etymology

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From accinō (“sing to”), from ad + canō (“sing”), a calque of Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “song sung to music; pronunciation of syllable”), from πρός (prós, “to”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /akˈken.tus/, [äkˈkɛn̪t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /atˈt͡ʃen.tus/, [ätˈt͡ʃɛn̪t̪us]

Noun

accentus m (genitive accentūs); fourth declension

1. a blast, signal
2. (phonology) accent, tone, accentuation
3. (figuratively) intensity, violence

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

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

• accentor
• accinō

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
• Irish: aiceann
• 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• accentŭs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 15/3.
• “accentus” on page 19 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)