recessus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛˈkɛs.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [reˈt͡ʃɛs.sus]

Perfect passive participle of recēdō (“to go back, give ground, retire, withdraw”).

recessus (feminine recessa, neuter recessum, adverb recessim); first/second-declension participle

1. perfect passive participle of recēdō
2. drawn back, receding; standing farther back

First/second-declension adjective.

From recēdō (“to go back, give ground, retire, withdraw”) +‎ -tus (action noun suffix).

recessus m (genitive recessūs); fourth declension

1. a going back, receding, retiring, retreat, departure

   Synonyms: sēcessiō, cessiō, dēcessiō, recessiō, discessus, discessiō, ēgressus, excessiō, dīgressiō, dīgressus, excessus, dēcessus, sēcessus

   Antonyms: prōgressus, prōgressiō, prōcessus, prōcessiō, accessus, accessiō

   1. (metonymic) a distant, retired, secluded or secret spot; a nook, corner, retreat, recess

      Synonyms: sēcessus, sēcrētum

2. (figurative) retreat, withdrawal

Fourth-declension noun.

• “recessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “recessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "recessus", 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)
• recessus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • ebb and flow (of tide): accessus et recessus aestuum