Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 283.cāsus on page 283
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cāsus accident
cāsus is a Latin Noun that primarily means accident.
Definitions for cāsus
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
accident, chance
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A falling down, fall, downward movement: (a) (of men and animals); ad ~um dare, to knock down. (b) (of inanimate things); (poet.) the end (of a season).
- 2
(of words) Termination, ending. (b) (of nouns, etc.) grammatical case.
- 3
Accident, chance. (b) ~u, by accident as opposed to intention, etc., accidentally, unintentionally. (c) ~u, by chance, as it happened. (d) a fortuitous occurence, an accident.
Sentences with cāsus
Latin to English
Fleque meos casus: est quaedam flere voluptas: expletur lacrimis egeriturque dolor.Compare Weep for my woe; in weeping there is a certain joy, for by tears grief is sated and relieved.
Non ergo fortuna homines aestimabo, sed moribus. Sibi quisque dat mores, condicionem casus assignat.Compare I shall not evaluate people by their fortunes, but by their moral character. Everyone gives himself his own moral character; status is assigned by chance.
Carmine divinas artis et conscia fati sidera diversos hominum varianta casus, caelestis rationis opus, deducere mundo aggredior. (Astronomica, I, 1)Compare Divining arts, and stars foreknowing fate varying the diverse turns of human state (The works of heaven's high reason) we bring down in verse, from Heaven.
Omnis, quicunque ago, subjectus sum mille casus scio.Compare I know that all things, whatsoever we do, are subject to a thousand accidents.
Ibi casus rex sum Ptolemaeus, puer aetam magnus copiae cum soror Cleopatra bellum gerens.Compare There by chance was king Ptolemy, a boy in age, carrying on war with a large force against his sister Cleopatra.
Nuntius Roma, qui certus de suus casus senatus facio, mitto.Compare They sent messengers to Rome, who might inform the senate of their misfortune.
Declension table for cāsus
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | cāsus | cāsūs |
| Gen. | cāsūs | cāsuum |
| Dat. | cāsuī | cāsibus |
| Acc. | cāsum | cāsūs |
| Abl. | cāsū | cāsibus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 472.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 283.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 121.
Bibliography
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Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "cāsus, cāsūs (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/casus-casus.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 472.on page 472
