decessus

Perfect passive participle of dēcēdō.

• dēcessus: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈkɛs.sʊs]
• dēcessus: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪eˈt͡ʃɛs.sus]
• dēcessūs: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈkɛs.suːs]
• dēcessūs: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪eˈt͡ʃɛs.sus]

dēcessus (feminine dēcessa, neuter dēcessum); first/second-declension participle

1. withdrawn, retired, departed, left

   Synonyms: recessus, sēcessiō, cessiō, dēcessiō, recessiō, discessus, discessiō, ēgressus, excessiō, dīgressiō, dīgressus, excessus, sēcessus

   Antonyms: prōgressus, prōgressiō, prōcessus, prōcessiō, accessus, accessiō

2. relinquished
3. deserted

First/second-declension adjective.

dēcessus m (genitive dēcessūs); fourth declension

1. departure
2. retirement
3. passing away, death
4. decline, fall, ebb

Fourth-declension noun.

• Italian: decesso
• Norman: décès
• Old French: deces
  • → English: decease
  • Middle French: deces
    • French: décès
      • → Romanian: deces
• Portuguese: decesso
• Spanish: deceso

• “decessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “decessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "decessus", 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)
• decessus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the ebb: decessus aestus