caseus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kwh₂et- (“to ferment, become sour”). Related to Old English hwaþerian (“to roar, foam, surge”), dialectal Swedish hvå (“foam”), Latvian kūsāt (“to boil”), Old Church Slavonic квасъ (kvasŭ, “leaven; sour drink”), Sanskrit क्वथते (kváthate, “it boils”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.se.us/, [ˈkäːs̠eʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.se.us/, [ˈkɑːs̬ɛus]

Noun

cāseus m (genitive cāseī); second declension

1. cheese

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cāseus	cāseī
Genitive	cāseī	cāseōrum
Dative	cāseō	cāseīs
Accusative	cāseum	cāseōs
Ablative	cāseō	cāseīs
Vocative	cāsee	cāseī

Synonyms

• (cheese): fōrmāgium (New Latin), fōrmāticum (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin, otherwise rare)

Derived terms

• cāseārius
• cāseolus
  • Ladin: ciajuel
  • Romansch: chaschiel, caschiel, chaschöl

Descendants

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: cash, cashu
  • Romanian: caș
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: casgiu
  • Dalmatian: chis
  • Italian: cacio
  • Neapolitan: caso
  • Sicilian: caciu
• Sardinian: casu
• West Iberian
  • Aragonese: queso
  • Old Leonese: keso
    • Asturian: quesu, queisu
    • Extremaduran: quesu
    • Leonese: queisu
    • Mirandese: queiso
  • Old Portuguese: queijo
    • Fala: quexio
    • Galician: queixo
    • Portuguese: queijo (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: queso
    • Ladino: kézo
    • Spanish: queso (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings

• → Brythonic: *kọs
  • Breton: keuz
  • Cornish: keus
  • Middle Welsh: caws
    • Welsh: caws
• → Old Irish: cáise
  • Irish: cáis
  • Manx: caashey
  • Scottish Gaelic: càise
• → West Germanic: *kāsī
  • Old English: ċīese, ċēse, ċȳse, cȳsa
    • Middle English: chese
      • English: cheese (see there for further descendants)
      • Scots: cheis, cheese
  • Old Frisian: kīse, tzīse
    • Saterland Frisian: tsīs
      • Saterland Frisian: Sies
    • West Frisian: tsiis, tsjiis
  • Old Saxon: kāsi
    • Middle Low German: kêse
      • Dutch Low Saxon: keze
      • German Low German: Kees, Käes, Käse
      • Plautdietsch: Kjees
  • Old Dutch: *cāsi
    • Middle Dutch: câse, kese
      • Dutch: kaas
        • Afrikaans: kaas
          • → Sotho: kase
          • → Tswana: kase
        • → Papiamentu: keshi (from the diminutive)
        • → Sranan Tongo: kasi
      • Limburgish: kieës, kees
  • Old High German: chāsi, kāsi
    • Middle High German: kæse
      • Alemannic German: Chääs, Chees, Chèès

        Alsatian: Käs

        Swabian: Kääs

        Walser: cheisch, chesch, chiesch, chääs, chìŝch

      • Bavarian: Kas, Kaas

        Cimbrian: kese, khes, khéeze

        Mòcheno: kas

        Udinese: ckaas, kase, khase

      • East Franconian: Kaas, Kees
      • German: Käse
      • Hunsrik: Kees
      • Kölsch: Kies
      • Luxembourgish: Kéis
      • Rhine Franconian:

        Hessian: Käs

        Palatine German: Kees

        Pennsylvania German: Kaes

      • Vilamovian: kȳz
      • Yiddish: קעז‎ (kez)

References

• caseus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caseus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caseus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• caseus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• caseus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers