cāsus

lat. cās + -us, m. cāsus/dt.

in der Sprachkunde ‘Beugungsfall, Beugungsform des Namen’.

• cassus (regular Republican spelling)

Etymology

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.sus/, [ˈkäːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.sus/, [ˈkäːs̬us]

Noun

cāsus m (genitive cāsūs); fourth declension

1. a fall, downwards movement
2. accident, chance
3. an event, happening, occurrence
4. misfortune, disaster, destruction, accident [ synonyms, antonyms ▲][ quotations ▼]

   Synonyms: plāga, incommodum, dētrīmentum, clādēs, interitus, perniciēs, exitium, vulnus, calamitās, incommoditās, pestis, īnfortūnium, cruciātus, miseria, malum, nūbēs

   Antonyms: commodum, commoditās

5. (grammar) A case, termination

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cāsus	cāsūs
Genitive	cāsūs	cāsuum
Dative	cāsuī	cāsibus
Accusative	cāsum	cāsūs
Ablative	cāsū	cāsibus
Vocative	cāsus	cāsūs

Hyponyms

• (grammar): [casus] nōminātīvus, genitīvus/genetīvus, datīvus, accūsātīvus, ablātīvus, vocātīvus, locātīvus, īnstrumentālis