caducus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From cadō (“I fall”).
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Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kaˈduː.kus/, [käˈd̪uːkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈdu.kus/, [käˈd̪uːkus]
Adjective[edit]
cadūcus (feminine cadūca, neuter cadūcum); first/second-declension adjective
- That falls or has fallen, falling, collapsing, tottering, drooping.
- That easily falls, inclined to fall
- (poetic) Devoted to death, destined to die, doomed.
- (figurative) Frail, fleeting, perishable, transitory; vain, futile.
- (law) Lapsed, vacant, escheatable, caducary.
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | cadūcus | cadūca | cadūcum | cadūcī | cadūcae | cadūca | |
| Genitive | cadūcī | cadūcae | cadūcī | cadūcōrum | cadūcārum | cadūcōrum | |
| Dative | cadūcō | cadūcō | cadūcīs | ||||
| Accusative | cadūcum | cadūcam | cadūcum | cadūcōs | cadūcās | cadūca | |
| Ablative | cadūcō | cadūcā | cadūcō | cadūcīs | |||
| Vocative | cadūce | cadūca | cadūcum | cadūcī | cadūcae | cadūca | |
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References[edit]
- “caducus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caducus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caducus 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)
- caducus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- caducus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016