casus
EnglishEdit
NounEdit
casus
- (logic, philosophy, obsolete) A possible world, as a starting point for reasoning.
AzerbaijaniEdit
Cyrillic | ҹасус | |
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Perso-Arabic | جاسوس |
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Arabic جَاسُوس (jāsūs).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
casus (definite accusative casusu, plural casuslar)
DeclensionEdit
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 |
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin cāsus (“chance, event”), the past participle of cadō (“to fall, happen”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Indonesian: kasus
LatinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- cassus (regular Republican spelling)
EtymologyEdit
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).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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, perniciēs, exitium, vulnus, calamitās, incommoditās, pestis, īnfortūnium, cruciātus, miseria, malum, nūbēs
- Antonyms: commodum, commoditās
- (grammar) A case, termination
DeclensionEdit
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 |
HyponymsEdit
- (grammar): [casus] nōminātīvus, genitīvus/genetīvus, datīvus, accūsātīvus, ablātīvus, vocātīvus, locātīvus, īnstrumentālis
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “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 (accessed 16 July 2016) 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
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin cāsus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
casus m inan
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ottoman Turkish جاسوس (casus), from Arabic جَاسُوس (jāsūs).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
casus (definite accusative casusu, plural casuslar)
DeclensionEdit
See alsoEdit
ZazakiEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Arabic جَاسُوس (jāsūs).
PronunciationEdit
- (Northern Zazaki) IPA(key): [dzɑˈsus]
- (Southern Zazaki) IPA(key): [dʒɑˈsus]
- Hyphenation: ca‧sus
NounEdit
casus (plural -i)