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caseus

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Latin

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Etymology

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Unknown according to De Vaan.[1] The old hypothesis deriving it from Proto-Indo-European *kwh₂et- (to ferment, become sour)[2] has the problem that *w isn't supposed to disappear in Latin (the expected outcome would start with qua- and not ca-). In this case, the cognates listed under *kwh₂et- are perhaps loans from the same substrate source as the Latin term.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cāseus m (genitive cāseī); second declension

  1. cheese
    Synonyms: (medieval) fōrmāticum, fōrmāgium
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.769:
      ‘ūbera plēna premam, referat mihi cāseus aera,
      dentque viam liquidō vīmina rāra serō.’
      ‘‘Let me squeeze full udders, may my cheese repay me with money,
      and may the wicker strainer give a passage to the liquid whey.’’

      (A shepherd’s prayer to Pales.)

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cāseus cāseī
genitive cāseī cāseōrum
dative cāseō cāseīs
accusative cāseum cāseōs
ablative cāseō cāseīs
vocative cāsee cāseī

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: cash, cashu
    • Romanian: caș
  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
  • North Italian:
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Gascon: casás (butter, cheese, whey)
    • Old Occitan: casadure (royalty on cheese)
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
  • Borrowings:
    • Old Irish: cáise (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Brythonic: *kọs (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-West Germanic: *kāsī (see there for further descendants)

References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cāseus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 96-7
  2. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “caseus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 176f
  3. ^ Ferguson, Ronnie. 2006. A linguistic history of Venice. Florence: Olschki. 254.

Further reading

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