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accès
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French
Etymology
From Latin accessus (“approach”), from accēdō (“approach, accede”).
Pronunciation
Noun
accès m (plural accès)
- access
- (medicine) attack, sudden fit, bout
- un accès de fièvre ― a bout of fever
- 1895, R. von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis:
- Le malade prétend avoir, étant jeune homme, souffert d'accès de vertige qui duraient plusieurs secondes et pendant lesquels il avait comme le sentiment que tout son être se désagrégeait.
- The patient claims to have, as a young man, suffered an attack of vertigo which lasted several seconds and during which he had the feeling that his entire being was coming apart.
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Descendants
- → Romanian: acces
Further reading
- “accès”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Occitan
Etymology
From Latin accessus (“approach”), from accēdō (“approach, accede”).
Pronunciation
Noun
accès m
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