What does accūsō mean in Latin?

accūsō, a verb, means “to blame, reproach, make a complaint against, find fault with; to indict, accuse, arraign, charge”.

What are the principal parts of accūsō?

accūsō, accūsāre, accūsāvī, accūsātum (first conjugation).

How do you pronounce accūsō?

In classical Latin, [akˈkuː.soː]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [akˈkuː.s̬o].

Where does accūsō come from?

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd → Proto-Italic *ad → Proto-Italic *ad- → Latin accūsō.

Which English words come from accūsō?

English words that go back to Latin accūsō include accuse, accusative, accusation, accuser, accusable and accusatival.

verbfirst conjugation

accūsō

accūsō (present infinitive accūsāre, perfect active accūsāvī, supine accūsātum)

Classical[akˈkuː.soː]Ecclesiastical[akˈkuː.s̬o]

Mille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

to blame, reproach, make a complaint against, find fault with
to indict, accuse, arraign, charge

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

dīcō aliquem malum fēcisse; reum in iūdicium vocō.

accūsō -āre — in Mille Verba, Urbs et Aedificia

crīmen alicui obiciō

accūsō -āre — in IVLIANVS I: Gallia, ch. 2 and Evangelium secundum Marcum, ch. 5, 21

culpam mōnstrō

accuse

accūsō -āre — in De Bello Gallico I, ch. 11

crīmen obiciō, reum faciō

accūsō -āre — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 10, 25

Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms

Arguere · Incusare · Culpare · Criminari · Insimulare · Deferre · Accusare

Arguere (from ἀργός) is the most general expression for any imputation of supposed or actual guilt, whether in a court of justice or not, as to tax or charge with; incusare, and the less frequent term culpare, denote only a complaint made out of a court of justice; criminari, an accusation with hostile or evil intention, in a calumnious spirit; insimulare, in an undeserved or slanderous manner, through suspicion; deferre, to impeach before a judge; accusare, to impeach in a criminal court. Cic. Lig. 4, 10. Arguis fatentem. Non est satis. Accusas eum. (ii. 163.)

Conjugation conjugation 1

active indicative
form	present	imperfect	future	perfect	pluperfect	fut. perfect
1st sg.	accūsō	accūsābam	accūsābō	accūsāvī	accūsāveram accūsāram	accūsāverō accūsārō
2nd sg.	accūsās	accūsābās	accūsābis	accūsāvistī accūsāstī	accūsāverās accūsārās	accūsāveris accūsāris
3rd sg.	accūsat	accūsābat	accūsābit	accūsāvit accūsāt	accūsāverat accūsārat	accūsāverit accūsārit
1st pl.	accūsāmus	accūsābāmus	accūsābimus	accūsāvimus accūsāmus	accūsāverāmus accūsārāmus	accūsāverimus accūsārimus
2nd pl.	accūsātis	accūsābātis	accūsābitis	accūsāvistis accūsāstis	accūsāverātis accūsārātis	accūsāveritis accūsāritis
3rd pl.	accūsant	accūsābant	accūsābunt	accūsāvērunt accūsārunt, accūsāvēre	accūsāverant accūsārant	accūsāverint accūsārint

active subjunctive

active subjunctive
form	present	imperfect	perfect	pluperfect
1st sg.	accūsem	accūsārem	accūsāverim accūsārim	accūsāvissem accūsāssem
2nd sg.	accūsēs	accūsārēs	accūsāverīs accūsārīs	accūsāvissēs accūsāssēs
3rd sg.	accūset	accūsāret	accūsāverit accūsārit	accūsāvisset accūsāsset
1st pl.	accūsēmus	accūsārēmus	accūsāverīmus accūsārīmus	accūsāvissēmus accūsāssēmus
2nd pl.	accūsētis	accūsārētis	accūsāverītis accūsārītis	accūsāvissētis accūsāssētis
3rd pl.	accūsent	accūsārent	accūsāverint accūsārint	accūsāvissent accūsāssent

passive indicative

passive indicative
form	present	imperfect	future
1st sg.	accūsor	accūsābar	accūsābor
2nd sg.	accūsāris accūsāre	accūsābāris accūsābāre	accūsāberis accūsābere
3rd sg.	accūsātur	accūsābātur	accūsābitur
1st pl.	accūsāmur	accūsābāmur	accūsābimur
2nd pl.	accūsāminī	accūsābāminī	accūsābiminī
3rd pl.	accūsantur	accūsābantur	accūsābuntur

passive subjunctive

passive subjunctive
form	present	imperfect
1st sg.	accūser	accūsārer
2nd sg.	accūsēris accūsēre	accūsārēris accūsārēre
3rd sg.	accūsētur	accūsārētur
1st pl.	accūsēmur	accūsārēmur
2nd pl.	accūsēminī	accūsārēminī
3rd pl.	accūsentur	accūsārentur

imperative

imperative
form	active	passive
pres. 2nd sg.	accūsā	accūsāre
pres. 2nd pl.	accūsāte	accūsāminī
fut. 2nd sg.	accūsātō	accūsātor
fut. 3rd sg.	accūsātō	accūsātor
fut. 2nd pl.	accūsātōte	—
fut. 3rd pl.	accūsantō	accūsantor

infinitives & participles

infinitives & participles
form	active	passive
present infinitive	accūsāre	accūsārī
perfect infinitive	accūsāvisse accūsāsse	accūsātum esse
future infinitive	accūsātūrum esse	accūsātum īrī
present participle	accūsāns	—
perfect participle	—	accūsātus accūsāta, accūsātā, accūsātae, accūsātam, accūsātārum, accūsātās, accūsātī, accūsātōrum, accūsātōs
future participle	accūsātūrus accūsātūra, accūsātūrā, accūsātūrae, accūsātūram, accūsātūrārum, accūsātūrās, accūsātūre, accūsātūrī, accūsātūrīs, accūsātūrō, accūsātūrōrum, accūsātūrōs, accūsātūrum	accūsandus accūsanda, accūsandā, accūsandae, accūsandam, accūsandārum, accūsandās, accūsande, accūsandīs, accūsandōrum, accūsandōs

gerundaccūsandī, accūsandō, accūsandumsupineaccūsātum, accūsātū

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

accusare aliquem maiestatis: to accuse a person of high treason (more specific than the preceding).
accusare aliquem perduellionis: to charge a person with treason (hostile conduct against the state generally).
accusare aliquem falsarum tabularum: to accuse a person of forging the archives.
accusare aliquem ambitus, de ambitu: to accuse some one of illegal canvassing.
accusare aliquem de vi, de veneficiis: to accuse a person of violence, poisoning.
accusare aliquem peculatus, pecuniae publicae: to accuse some one of malversation, embezzlement of public money.
accusare aliquem rei capitalis (rerum capitalium): to charge some one with a capital offence.
accusare aliquem inter sicarios (Rosc. Am. 32. 90): to accuse a person of assassination.

ac-cūso (also with ss; cf. Cassiod. 2283 P.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. fr. causa; cf. cludo with claudo, orig. = ad causam provocare,

I. to call one to account, to make complaint against, to reproach, blame.

I. In gen., of persons: si id non me accusas, tu ipse objurgandus es, if you do not call me to account for it, you yourself deserve to be reprimanded, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 59: quid me accusas? id. As. 1, 3, 21: meretricem hanc primum adeundam censeo, oremus, accusemus gravius, denique minitemur, we must entreat, severely chide, and finally threaten her, Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 94 sq.: ambo accusandi, you both deserve reproach, id. Heaut. 1, 1, 67: cotidie accusabam, I daily took him to task, id. ib. 1, 1, 50: me accusas cum hunc casum tam graviter feram, Cic. Att. 3, 13; id. Fam. 1, 1 Manut.: me tibi excuso in eo ipso, in quo te accuso, id. Q. Fr. 2, 2: ut me accusare de epistularum neglegentia possis, that you may blame me for my tardiness in writing, id. Att. 1, 6. —Also metaph. of things, to blame, find fault with: alicujus desperationem, Cic. Fam. 6, 1: inertiam adolescentium, id. de Or. 1, 58 (cf. incusare, Tac. H. 4, 42); hence also: culpam alicujus, to lay the fault on one, Cic. Planc. 4, 9; cf. id. Sest. 38, 80; id. Lig. 1, 2; id. Cael. 12, 29.—Hence,

II. Esp.

A. Transferred to civil life, to call one to account publicly (ad causam publicam, or publice dicendam provocare), to accuse, to inform against, arraign, indict (while incusare means to involve or entangle one in a cause); t. t. in Roman judicial lang.; constr. with aliquem alicujus rei (like κατηγορεῖν, cf. Prisc. 1187 P.): accusant ii, qui in fortunas hujus invaserunt, causam dicit is, cui nihil reliquerunt, Cic. Rosc. Am. 5: numquam, si se ambitu commaculasset, ambitus alterum accusaret, id. Cael. 7: ne quis ante actarum rerum accusaretur, that no one should be called to account for previous offences, Nep. Thras. 3, 2; Milt. 1, 7. Other rarer constructions are: aliquem aliquid (only with id, illud, quod), Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 59; cf. Ter. Ph. 5, 8, 21: aliquo crimine, Cic. Verr. 1, 16; Nep. Milt. 8; id. Lys. 3, 4; id. Ep. 1 al.: de pecuniis repetundis, Cic. Clu. 41, 114; cf.: de veneficiis, id. Rosc. Am. 32, 90: inter sicarios, id. ib. 32; cf. Zumpt, § 446; Rudd. 2, 165 sq.; 169, note 4.—The punishment that is implied in the accusation is put in gen.: capitis, to accuse one of a capital crime, Nep. Paus. 2, 6; cf. Zumpt, § 447. —

B. Casus accusandi, the fourth case in grammar, the accusative case, Var. L. L. 8, § 66 Müll.; v. accusativus.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
Proto-Italic*ad
Proto-Italic*ad-
Latinaccūsō

Proto-Italic *kaussā Old Latin caussa Latin causa Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin accūsō From ad- (“to, towards, at”) + causa (“cause, reason, account, lawsuit”) + -ō.

Descendants

Catalanacusar
Englishaccuse
Frenchaccuser
Italianaccusare
Portugueseacusar
Romanianacuza
Spanishacusar
Esperantoakuzi
Idoakuzar
Istriotacusa

In English words that came into English from accūsō

accuseaccūsō
accusativeaccūsātīvus
accusationaccūsātiō
accuseraccūsātor
accusatoryaccūsātōrius
accusableaccūsābilis
accusativalaccūsātīvum
accusatorialaccūsātōrius
accusatrixaccūsātrīx
accusantaccusans