caducus

Latin

Etymology

From cadō (“to fall”) +‎ -ūcus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cadūcus (feminine cadūca, neuter cadūcum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. That falls or has fallen, falling, collapsing, tottering, drooping.
  2. That easily falls, inclined to fall
  3. (poetic) Devoted to death, destined to die, doomed.
  4. (figuratively) Frail, fleeting, perishable, transitory; vain, futile.
  5. (law) Lapsed, vacant, escheatable, caducary.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative cadūcus cadūca cadūcum cadūcī cadūcae cadūca
Genitive cadūcī cadūcae cadūcī cadūcōrum cadūcārum cadūcōrum
Dative cadūcō cadūcō cadūcīs
Accusative cadūcum cadūcam cadūcum cadūcōs cadūcās cadūca
Ablative cadūcō cadūcā cadūcō cadūcīs
Vocative cadūce cadūca cadūcum cadūcī cadūcae cadūca

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  • “caducus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “caducus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caducus 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)
  • caducus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • caducus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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