cascus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kaskos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₁s-ko-/*ḱh₂(e)s-ko-,[1] from *ḱHs- (whence also Latin cānus (“white”)). Cognate with Welsh cannu (“to whiten”), ceinach (“hare”), English hare, Latin cānus (“grayish-white”), Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی (soe, “hare”), Sanskrit शश (śaśá, “hare”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.kus/, [ˈkäs̠kʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.kus/, [ˈkäskus]
Adjective
cascus (feminine casca, neuter cascum); first/second-declension adjective (Old Latin)
- (archaic) ancient, olden
- Second C. BCE, unknown author, Carmen Priami 1:
- Veterēs Casmēnās cascam rem volō prōfārī...
- I want the Camenae of old to tell of an ancient tale...
- Veterēs Casmēnās cascam rem volō prōfārī...
- c. 310 CE – c. 395 CE, Ausonius, Epistles 22.27–28:
- Et nunc parāvit trīticum cascō sale,
novusque pollet emporus.- And now he's bartered wheat for ancient salt,
and flourishes as a self-made merchant.
- And now he's bartered wheat for ancient salt,
- Et nunc parāvit trīticum cascō sale,
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | cascus | casca | cascum | cascī | cascae | casca | |
Genitive | cascī | cascae | cascī | cascōrum | cascārum | cascōrum | |
Dative | cascō | cascō | cascīs | ||||
Accusative | cascum | cascam | cascum | cascōs | cascās | casca | |
Ablative | cascō | cascā | cascō | cascīs | |||
Vocative | casce | casca | cascum | cascī | cascae | casca |
Derived terms
- cascē
See also
- Cascus
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cascus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 96
- “cascus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cascus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cascus 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)
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