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 Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkaː.se.us/, [ˈkäːs̠eʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.se.us/, [ˈkäːs̬eus]
Noun
cāseus m (genitive cāseī); second declension
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
Descendants
- Aromanian: cash
- Corsican: casgiu
- Dalmatian: chis
- English: casein
- Italian: cacio
- Ladin: ciajuel
- Neapolitan: caso
- Old Irish: cáise
- Old Leonese: keso
- Old Galician-Portuguese: queijo
- Old Spanish: queso
- Romanian: caș
- Romansch: chaschiel
- Sardinian: casu
- Sicilian: caciu
- → Proto-Brythonic: *kọs
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kāsī (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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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