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/, [ˈkaː.se.ʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.se.us/, [ˈkaː.zɛ.us]

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): fōrmāticum

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: cash, cashu
  • Romanian: caș
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: casgiu
  • Dalmatian: chis
  • Italian: cacio
  • Neapolitan: caso
  • Sicilian: caciu
• Sardinian: casu

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• 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
  • Welsh: caws
• West Germanic: *kāsī (see there for further descendants)
• Old Irish: cáise (see there for further descendants)

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