accentus

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Noun

accentus (uncountable)

(logic) Ambiguity arising when the meaning of a sentence is changed by placing an unusual prosodic stress, or when, in a written passage, it is left unclear which word the emphasis was supposed to fall on.
(music) A style of church music that emphasizes spoken word.
Coordinate term: concentus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-der.

Proto-Italic *kanō

Latin canō

Latin accinō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

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Ancient Greek προσῳδῐ́ᾱ (prosōidĭ́ā)calq.

Latin accentus

From accinō (“to sing to”) +‎ -tus (forming action nouns), 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 Latin) IPA^(key): [akˈkɛn.tʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [atˈt͡ʃɛn.tus]

Noun

accentus m (genitive accentūs); fourth declension

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	accentus	accentūs
genitive	accentūs	accentuum
dative	accentuī	accentibus
accusative	accentum	accentūs
ablative	accentū	accentibus
vocative	accentus	accentūs

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

→ Albanian: aksent
→ Aragonese: accento
→ Basque: azentu
→ Belarusian: акцэнт (akcent)
→ Bulgarian: акцент (akcent)
→ Catalan: accent
→ Czech: akcent
→ Danish: accent
→ Dutch: accent
→ Esperanto: akcento
→ Estonian: aktsent
→ Finnish: aksentti
Galician: acento
→ German: Akzent
→ Hungarian: akcentus
→ Ido: acento, achento
→ Indonesian: aksen
→ Interlingua: accento
Italian: accento
→ Lithuanian: akcentas
→ Macedonian: акцент (akcent)
Occitan: accent
→ Old English: accent
Old French: acent
- Middle French: accent
  - French: accent
    - → Danish: accent
    - → Norwegian Bokmål: accent, aksent
    - → Turkish: aksan
  - → Middle English: accent
    - English: accent
      - → Japanese: アクセント (akusento)
- Norman: accent
→ Old Irish: aiccend, aiccent
- Irish: aiceann
- Scottish Gaelic: aicinn
→ Old Prussian: akcēnts
→ Polish: akcent (learned)
→ Portuguese: acento
→ Romanian: accent
→ Russian: акцент (akcent)
Sardinian: atzentu
→ Serbo-Croatian: акценат (akcenat)
→ Sicilian: accentu
→ Spanish: acento
→ Swedish: accent
→ 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, 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)