Daily Ancestordecessit
Decessit is Latin for he or she departed, a polite way of saying the person died.
Decessit is a past form of decedo, to depart or withdraw, which also means to die. The BYU glossary gives to depart, leave; to die.
It means the same as obiit. English deceased comes from the same verb. The date with decessit is the date of death, not of burial.
As seen in a recordLatin burial register, Austria, 1810s
Decessit die 14 Februarii Antonius Kolbinger, colonus
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