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casus
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English
Noun
casus
- (logic, philosophy, obsolete) A possible world, as a starting point for reasoning.
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Azerbaijani
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
casus (definite accusative casusu, plural casuslar)
Declension
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cāsus (“chance, event”), the past participle of cadō (“to fall, happen”).
Pronunciation
Noun
casus m (plural casussen or casus, diminutive casusje n)
- (law) a legal case
- a case, occurrence, instance, especially used for a case study, reference or teaching example
- Synonym: geval
- (grammar) a case, (instance of) grammatical case
- Synonym: naamval
- a coincidence
- Synonym: toeval
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Descendants
Latin
Alternative forms
- cassus (regular Republican spelling)
Etymology
From cāssus with regular degemination after a long vowel, for cadō (“to fall, happen”) + -tus (“action noun suffix”), from Proto-Italic *kadō, Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d- (“to fall”). The grammatical sense is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek πτῶσις (ptôsis) (whence also calqued Old Church Slavonic падежь (padežĭ) (Russian паде́ж (padéž)), German Fall).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkaː.sʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkaː.s̬us]
Noun
cāsus m (genitive cāsūs); fourth declension
- a fall, downwards movement
- accident, chance
- an event, happening, occurrence
- misfortune, disaster, destruction, accident
- Synonyms: plāga, incommodum, dētrīmentum, clādēs, interitus, perniciēs, exitium, vulnus, calamitās, incommoditās, pestis, īnfortūnium, cruciātus, miseria, malum, nūbēs
- Antonyms: commodum, commoditās
- L. Annaeus Seneca, Hercules, line 328:
- quem saepe trānsiit cāsus, aliquandō invenit.
- he who oft has shunned misfortune meets at last his fate.
- quem saepe trānsiit cāsus, aliquandō invenit.
- (grammar) A case, termination
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Hyponyms
- (grammar): [casus] nōminātīvus, genitīvus/genetīvus, datīvus, accūsātīvus, ablātīvus, vocātīvus, locātīvus, īnstrumentālis
Derived terms
Descendants
- Asturian: casu
- Catalan: cas
- → Dutch: casus
- → Finnish: kaasus
- Galician: caso
- → German: Kasus
- Italian: caso
- Occitan: cas
- Mirandese: causo
- Neapolitan: caso
- → Old French: cas
- Portuguese: caso, acaso
- → Romanian: caz
- Romansch: cas
- → Russian: ка́зус (kázus)
- Sicilian: casu
- → Spanish: caso
- Swedish: kasus
- Venetan: caxo
Further reading
- “casus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “casus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "casus", 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)
- “casus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to foresee the far distant future: futura or casus futuros (multo ante) prospicere
- by some chance or other: nescio quo casu (with Indic.)
- the changes and chances of this life: ancipites et varii casus
- to have to submit to the uncertainties of fortune; to be subject to Fortune's caprice: sub varios incertosque casus subiectum esse
- to experience the ups and downs of life: multis casibus iactari
- to be prepared for all that may come: ad omnes casus subsidia comparare
- to prepare oneself for all contingencies: ad omnes casus se comparare
- to foresee political events long before: longe prospicere futuros casus rei publicae (De Amic. 12. 40)
- (ambiguous) affairs are desperate; we are reduced to extremeties: res ad extremum casum perducta est
- to foresee the far distant future: futura or casus futuros (multo ante) prospicere
- casus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “casus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin cāsus.
Pronunciation
Noun
casus m inan
Declension
Declension of casus
Further reading
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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish جاسوس (casus), from Arabic جَاسُوس (jāsūs).
Pronunciation
Noun
casus (definite accusative casusu, plural casuslar)
Declension
Derived terms
- casusluk
See also
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Zazaki
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Northern Zazaki) IPA(key): [dzɑˈsus]
- (Southern Zazaki) IPA(key): [dʒɑˈsus]
- Hyphenation: ca‧sus
Noun
casus (plural -i)
See also
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