cascus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kaskos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₁s-ko-/*ḱh₂(e)s-ko-, 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)

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 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.

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

• “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)