assisa

assisa f sg

1. feminine singular of assiso

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈas.si.sa/, [ˈäs̠ːɪs̠ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.si.sa/, [ˈäsːis̬ä]

By metaplasm from accessus (“approach”).^[1]

assisa f (genitive assisae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) onrush of the tide
2. (Medieval Latin, generally) the tide

First-declension noun.

From assideō (“sit by; be stationed, fixed”), probably conflated with accīdō (“cut”). Equivalent to English assize.

• assisia, assizia
• assisium n

assisa f (genitive assisae); first declension (Medieval Latin, chiefly law)

1. session (of a court)
   1. jury
   2. sentence
   3. lawsuit
2. statute, writ, ordinance

   assisa de nocumentō

   assize of nuisance (a writ issued for the remedy of a nuisance)

3. tax, impost, tribute
   • 1237, “Accord entre l’Abbaye Saint-Remi de Reims et Manassés, frère du comte de Rethel”, in Gustave Saige, Henri Lacaille, editors, Trésor des chartes du comté de Rethel, volume 2, page 127:

     […] si aliquis de dictis hominibus die prefato non redderet hujus modi assisiam quam deberet, major ville de Salcia, vel ille qui fuerit loco majoris, tenebitur, in crastino dicti festi sancti Martini, facere reddi dictam assisiam, vel facere satisfieri, mandato dicti Manasseri, in vadio competenti.

     […] if any of the said men on the day mentioned does not deliver such tribute that he owes, the mayor of the town of Saulces, or he who represents the mayor, will be obliged to make the said tribute on the day after the said feast of Saint Martin, or to have it satisfied, by the command of the said Manasses, in an appropriate pledge.

4. assembly of nobles

First-declension noun.

• assisa 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)
• assisa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• assisia in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “assisa”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 65