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

Adjective

cascus (feminine casca, neuter cascum); first/second-declension adjective (Old Latin)

  1. (archaic) ancient, olden
    • 239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius, Annales 24:
      ...quam prīscī cascī populī tenuēre Latīnī...
      ...which the ancient Latin folk of eld did hold...
    • 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...
    • c. 310 CEc. 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.

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

  1. 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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