decessus

Perfect passive participle of dēcēdō.

• dēcessus: (Classical) IPA^(key): /deːˈkes.sus/, [d̪eːˈkɛs̠ːʊs̠]
• dēcessus: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈt͡ʃes.sus/, [d̪eˈt͡ʃɛsːus]
• dēcessūs: (Classical) IPA^(key): /deːˈkes.suːs/, [d̪eːˈkɛs̠ːuːs̠]
• dēcessūs: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈt͡ʃes.sus/, [d̪eˈt͡ʃɛsːus]

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 withdrawn, retired, departed, left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.

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the ebb: decessus aestus