Accusatis

Accusatis is a Latin grammatical form, not a standalone lexical item in English. It is the dative plural and ablative plural form of the perfect passive participle accusatus, derived from the verb accuso, meaning to accuse. As a participial form, accusatus belongs to the fourth principal part of the verb and can be used to describe someone who has been accused.

In Latin, accusatus (and its plural forms accusati, accusatae, accusata) is declined to agree with the gender and number of the noun it modifies. The accusatis form, specifically, is used for both dative plural and ablative plural, depending on the syntactic role of the phrase in a sentence. This means it can convey meanings such as “to/for the accused” or “by/with the accused,” depending on the surrounding grammar and prepositions.

Usage of accusatis is primarily grammatical. It serves as a participle that may modify a noun (attributive use) or occur predicatively, describing subjects or objects that have been accused. It is not typically used as a substantive noun in ordinary Latin, though a related noun form such as accusatus can be used in equivalent ways in some contexts.

The form appears in classical and later Latin texts wherever a description of people or things that have been accused is needed, including legal, rhetorical, and narrative passages. Its interpretation in translation hinges on the case function: dative or ablative, and on whether it functions adjectivally or predicatively.

See also: accusatus, accusatio, accusator.