casus
English edit
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casus
- (logic, philosophy, obsolete) A possible world, as a starting point for reasoning.
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Azerbaijani edit
Cyrillic | ҹасус | |
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Abjad | جاسوس |
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic جَاسُوس (jāsūs).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
casus (definite accusative casusu, plural casuslar)
Declension edit
Declension of casus | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | casus |
casuslar | ||||||
definite accusative | casusu |
casusları | ||||||
dative | casusa |
casuslara | ||||||
locative | casusda |
casuslarda | ||||||
ablative | casusdan |
casuslardan | ||||||
definite genitive | casusun |
casusların |
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin cāsus (“chance, event”), the past participle of cadō (“to fall, happen”).
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Noun edit
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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- → Indonesian: kasus
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
- cassus (regular Republican spelling)
Etymology edit
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).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkaː.sus/, [ˈkäːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.sus/, [ˈkäːs̬us]
Noun edit
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 328:
- quem saepe trānsiit cāsus, aliquandō invenit.
- Misfortune will finds whom it often has spared.
- quem saepe trānsiit cāsus, aliquandō invenit.
- (grammar) A case, termination
Declension edit
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | cāsus | cāsūs |
Genitive | cāsūs | cāsuum |
Dative | cāsuī | cāsibus |
Accusative | cāsum | cāsūs |
Ablative | cāsū | cāsibus |
Vocative | cāsus | cāsūs |
Hyponyms edit
- (grammar): [casus] nōminātīvus, genitīvus/genetīvus, datīvus, accūsātīvus, ablātīvus, vocātīvus, locātīvus, īnstrumentālis
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Further reading edit
- “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[1], 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], 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
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin cāsus.
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Noun edit
casus m inan
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Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish جاسوس (casus), from Arabic جَاسُوس (jāsūs).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
casus (definite accusative casusu, plural casuslar)
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Zazaki edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic جَاسُوس (jāsūs).
Pronunciation edit
- (Northern Zazaki) IPA(key): [dzɑˈsus]
- (Southern Zazaki) IPA(key): [dʒɑˈsus]
- Hyphenation: ca‧sus
Noun edit
casus (plural -i)