causalis

Latin

Etymology

From causa +‎ -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kau̯ˈsaː.lis/, [käu̯ˈs̠äːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kau̯ˈsa.lis/, [käu̯ˈsäːlis]

Adjective

causālis (neuter causāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (Late Latin) causal
2. (Late Latin, grammar) causal
   • 1737, Glossarium germanicum, continens origines & antiquitates totius linguae germanicae, et omnium pene vocabulorum, vigentium et desitorum. Opus [...] Johannis Georgii Wachteri, page 257:

     Gothi tres habent conjunctiones causales, than Luc. I. 66. unte Matth. IX. 24. & uhthan Marc. XVI. 8. Anglosaxones & Franci nullas.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	causālis	causāle		causālēs	causālia
Genitive	causālis			causālium
Dative	causālī			causālibus
Accusative	causālem	causāle		causālēs causālīs	causālia
Ablative	causālī			causālibus
Vocative	causālis	causāle		causālēs	causālia

Descendants

• Catalan: causal
• Dutch: causaal
• Norwegian Bokmål: kausal
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kausal
• English: causal
• French: causal
• German: kausal
• Italian: causale
• Portuguese: causal
• Romanian: cauzal
• Spanish: causal
• Swedish: kausal

References

• “causalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• causalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.