aditus

Borrowed from Latin aditus.

singular

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.dɪ.təs/

plural

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.dɪ.tuːs/

aditus (plural aditus)

1. the entrance to a cavity or channel

• adit

• audist, audits

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.di.tus/, [ˈäd̪ɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.di.tus/, [ˈäːd̪it̪us]

From adeō (“approach, attend, undertake”) +‎ -tus (action noun forming suffix).

aditus m (genitive aditūs); fourth declension

1. approach, access
2. attack
3. entrance
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.15:

     unum habeat et perangustum aditum

     and has a very narrow entrance

4. chance, opportunity, means

Fourth-declension noun.

• Galician: eido
• Portuguese: aido, eido
• → English: aditus
• → Italian: adito
• → Portuguese: ádito

Perfect passive participle of adeō.

aditus (feminine adita, neuter aditum); first/second-declension participle

1. approached

First/second-declension adjective.

• “aditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aditus 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)
• aditus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.