casualis

Latin

Etymology

From cāsus +‎ -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaː.suˈaː.lis/, [käːs̠uˈäːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.suˈa.lis/, [käs̬uˈäːlis]

Adjective

cāsuālis (neuter cāsuāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. fortuitous
2. casual

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	cāsuālis	cāsuāle		cāsuālēs	cāsuālia
Genitive	cāsuālis			cāsuālium
Dative	cāsuālī			cāsuālibus
Accusative	cāsuālem	cāsuāle		cāsuālēs cāsuālīs	cāsuālia
Ablative	cāsuālī			cāsuālibus
Vocative	cāsuālis	cāsuāle		cāsuālēs	cāsuālia

Descendants

• → Catalan: casual
• → Galician: casual
• → Italian: casuale
• → Middle French: casuel
  • French: casuel
  • → English: casual
• → Piedmontese: casual
• → Portuguese: casual
• → Romanian: cazual
• → Spanish: casual

References

• “casualis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• casualis 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)
• casualis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.