different between accessory vs ancilla

English

Alternative forms

• (noun): accessary

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?s?s??i/, /æk?s?s??i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?s?s(?)?i/, /æk?s?s(?)?i/
• Homophone: accessary

Etymology 1

First attested in 1550s. From Middle English accessorie, from Medieval Latin access?rius, from Latin accessor (“helper, subordinate”), from accessus. Compare access, from same root.

Adjective

accessory (comparative more accessory, superlative most accessory)

1. Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; being additional; being connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or being contributory. Said of people and things, and, when of people, usually in a bad sense

2. (law) Assisting a crime without actually participating in committing the crime itself.
3. Present in a minor amount, and not essential.

Synonyms

• (having a secondary function): accompanying, contributory, auxiliary, subsidiary, subservient, additional, acceding

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

• (legal): First attested in 1414.
• (fashion): First attested in 1896.

Noun

accessory (plural accessories)

1. Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an attachment.
   • 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling

     the aspect and accessories of a den of banditti

2. (fashion) An article that completes one's basic outfit, such as a scarf or gloves.
3. (law) A person who is not present at a crime, but contributes to it as an assistant or instigator.
4. (art) Something in a work of art without being indispensably necessary, for example solely ornamental parts.

Synonyms

• (something that belongs to part of another main thing): accompaniment, addition, attachment, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct
• (one who assists in or instigates an offense): abettor, accomplice, ally, coadjutor, accessary

Derived terms

• accessory before the fact
• accessory after the fact
• accessoryship
• Cambodian accessory

Descendants

• ? Hebrew: ????????????? (aksésori)
• ? Japanese: ?????? (akusesar?)
• ? Korean: ???? (aekseseori)

Translations

References

• accessory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From Latin ancilla (“maid, slave-girl”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æn?s?.l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

ancilla (plural ancillae)

1. A maid.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 306:

     ‘And pass me that towel,’ added Ada, but the ancilla was picking up coins she had dropped in her haste […]

2. An auxiliary or accessory

Related terms

• ancillary

Anagrams

• aclinal

Latin

Etymology

From ancula (“maid”) +? -lus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /an?kil.la/, [ä??k?l??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /an?t??il.la/, [?n???t??il??]

Noun

ancilla f (genitive ancillae); first declension

1. maid, slave-girl

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

• ancill?tus
• ancula

References

• ancilla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ancilla in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ancilla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ancilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• ancilla in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ancilla in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin