The corpus record — Latin

accessio

approaching; addition

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Where it lives

Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 3 · 7.37/10k
De Medicina 62 · 6.05/10k
De Otio 1 · 5.1/10k
Timaeus 2 · 4.74/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 4 · 3.04/10k
Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 12 · 2.4/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 2 · 2.37/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 2 · 1.92/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 2 · 1.84/10k

Densest 12 of 57 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. accessio — de Vaan

accessio 'approaching; addition' (P1.+), accessitare 'to approach repeatedly' (Cato), — [de Vaan, s.v. accessio, p. 117]

2. accessĭo — Lewis & Short

accessĭo, ōnis, f.accedo,

I a going or coming to or near, an approach.

I In gen.: quid tibi in concilium huc accessio est? why comest thou hither? Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 86; cf.: quid tibi ad hasce accessio est aedīs prope? id. Truc. 2, 2, 3; Cic. Univ. 12: ut magnas accessiones fecerint in operibus expugnandis, sallies, Caes. B. Alex. 22: suo labore suisque accessionibus, i. e. by his labor of calling on people, by his visits, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 53 fin.—

II In part.

A In medicine, t. t., the access, attack, or paroxysm of a disease, Cels. 2, 12; 3, 3 sq.; Sen. Ep. 85, 12; id. N. Q. 6, 18, 6; Suet. Vesp. 23 al.—

B A coming to in the way of augmentation, an increase, addition.

1 In abstracto: paucorum annorum, Cic. Lael. 3, 7: pecuniae, Nep. Att. 14, 2: fortunae et dignitatis, Cic. Fam. 2, 1; 7, 6; 10, 9; id. Rep. 2, 21: odii, Caes. B. Alex. 48: dignitatis, Vell. 2, 130 fin.—

2 The thing added, the addition, or accession: in concreto: Scaurusaccessionem adjunxit aedibus, added a new part, Cic. Off. 1, 39, 138; so id. Att. 16, 16. Thus Syphax is called, accessio Punici belli, as not being the chief enemy in the Punic war, but, as it were, an appendage to the war, Liv. 47, 7; so in Pliny: turbā gemmarum potamus—et aurum jam accessio est, and gold is only accessory, a mere appendage, 33 prooem. fin.—

C In rhetor., an addition that makes a definition complete: nisi adhiberet illam magnam accessionem, Cic. Ac. 2, 35, 112; so id. Fin. 2, 13.—

D The addition to every kind of fee or tax (opp. decessio), Cato R. R. 144: decumae, Cic. Rab. 11; so Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 33, § 116 al.

In the wild

accessionem Seneca, De Consolatione ad Helviam 11.7.5
accessiones Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.118
accessiones Celsus, De Medicina 3.4.p4
accessiones Seneca, De Beneficiis 4.1.3
accessio Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.36.1.16
accessio Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.51

6 of 213 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. accessio (scan p. 117; entry #239).

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