Editing Accessory (section)

==English==

===Alternative forms===
* [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accessary accessary]

===Transliteration Pronunciation===
* Katakana: アクセサリー (akusesarī)
* Hangul: 액세서리 (aek-se-seo-ri)
* Anglo-Saxon Runes: ᚪᚳᛋᛖᛋᚪᚱᛁ (ə-k-s-e-s-ə-r-i) / ᚫᚳᛋᛖᛋᚪᚱᛁ (æ-k-s-e-s-ə-r-i)

===Etymology 1===
From [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accessorius#Latin Medieval Latin] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accessorius#Latin accessōrius]'', from [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wiki/Appendix:Latin Latin] ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accessor#Latin accessor]'' ("helper, subordinate"), from ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accessus#Latin accessus]''. Compare [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/access access], from the same [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Latin_roots root].

====Adjective====

'''accessory''' (''comparative'' more accessory, ''superlative'' most accessory)

# Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accompanying accompanying] as a subordinate; [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aiding aiding] in a secondary way; being additional; [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contributing contributing] or being [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contributory contributory]. (from 1550s)
# (''legal'') [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Assisting Assisting] a crime without actually participating in committing the crime itself; being connected as an [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/incident incident] or subordinate to a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/principal principal].
# (''medicine, biology'') [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Supernumerary Supernumerary] and generally [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonfunctional nonfunctional].

===Etymology 2===
From Middle English [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accessorie#Middle_English ''accessorie''], from Medieval Latin [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accessorius#Latin ''accessōrius''], from Latin [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accessor#Latin ''accessor''] ("helper, subordinate"), from [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accessus#Latin ''accessus'']. Compare [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/access access], from the same root.

====Noun====
'''accessory''' (''plural'' '''accessories''')

[[File:AccessoryBlissymbol.png|right|thumb|250px|Blissymbol for ''accessory'' (thing + plus + clothing: something added to one's clothing), [https://www.blissymbolics.org/ Blissymbolics Communication International], CC BY-SA 4.0.]]

# Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/attachment attachment].
#: ''the accessories of a mobile phone''
# (''fashion'') An article that completes one's basic outfit, such as a scarf or gloves.
# (''legal'') A person who is not present at a crime, but contributes to it as an assistant or instigator.
#: ''She was an '''accessory''' to the murder because she helped him commit and probably also conceal the crime.''
# (''art'') Something in a work of art without being [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/indispensably indispensably] necessary, for example solely ornamental parts.

===References===
* [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accessory Webster's Dictionary (1913)]
* [https://www.etymonline.com/word/accessory Online Etymology Dictionary — ''accessory'' (adj.)]
* [https://www.etymonline.com/word/accessory Online Etymology Dictionary — ''accessory'' (n.)]
* [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/ Middle English Dictionary Online — ''accessō̆rie'' (n.)]
* [https://www.oed.com/ Oxford English Dictionary Online — ''accessory'' (n. and adj.)]

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