caseus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kwat- ‎(“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.ʊs/

Noun

cāseus m ‎(genitive cāseī); second declension

1. cheese

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cāseus	cāseī
genitive	cāseī	cāseōrum
dative	cāseō	cāseīs
accusative	cāseum	cāseōs
ablative	cāseō	cāseīs
vocative	cāsee	cāseī

Synonyms

• (cheese): formāticum

Derived terms

• cāseārius

Descendants

Aragonese: queso Aromanian: cash Corsican: casgiu Dalmatian: chis Dutch: kaas, kees (dialectal) English: cheese, casein Cantonese: 芝士 ‎(zi1 si6-2) Japanese: チーズ ‎(chīzu) Korean: 치즈 ‎(chijeu) Mandarin: 芝士 ‎(zhīshì), 起士 ‎(qǐshì), 起司 ‎(qǐsī) German: Käse Italian: cacio Ladin: ciajuel Low German: Kees Luxembourgish: Kéis Middle Dutch: cāse, kāse; kēse (eastern dialects) Middle Low German: kēse Neapolitan: caso Ojibwe: ᒌᐦᐢ ‎((SRO) cîhs \ (Fiero) jiis) (Saulteaux (western) dialects) Old English: ċīese, ċēse

Old High German: chāsi Old Irish: cáise Irish: cáis Manx: caashey Scottish Gaelic: càise Old Leonese: keso Asturian: quesu, queisu Extremaduran: quesu Leonese: queisu Mirandese: queiso Old Portuguese: queijo Fala: quexio Galician: queixo Portuguese: queijo Malay: keju Indonesian: keju Tetum: keiju

Old Saxon: kāsi Old Spanish: queso Ladino: kézo Spanish: queso Amuzgo: kesò Navajo: géeso Seri: quiiz Tagalog: keso Quechua: kisu Proto-Germanic: *kāsijaz Romanian: caș Romansh: chaschiel Sardinian: casu Sicilian: caciu Welsh: caws West Frisian: tsiis Yiddish: קעז ‎(kez)

References

• caseus in Charlton T. Lewis & 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 Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• caseus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers