occasus

Latin

Etymology

From occidō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /okˈkaː.sus/, [ɔkˈkäːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /okˈka.sus/, [okˈkäːs̬us]

Noun

occāsus m (genitive occāsūs); fourth declension

1. setting (of the sun etc.)
2. west

Declension

Fourth-declension noun

	singular	plural
nominative	occāsus	occāsūs
genitive	occāsūs	occāsuum
dative	occāsuī	occāsibus
accusative	occāsum	occāsūs
ablative	occāsū	occāsibus
vocative	occāsus	occāsūs

Derived terms

• occāsiō

Descendants

• → Catalan: ocàs
• → Galician: ocaso
• → Italian: occaso
• → Portuguese: ocaso
• → Spanish: ocaso

Adjective

occāsus (feminine occāsa, neuter occāsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. setting
2. western

Declension

First/second-declension adjective

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	occāsus	occāsa	occāsum		occāsī	occāsae	occāsa
genitive	occāsī	occāsae	occāsī		occāsōrum	occāsārum	occāsōrum
dative	occāsō	occāsae	occāsō		occāsīs
accusative	occāsum	occāsam	occāsum		occāsōs	occāsās	occāsa
ablative	occāsō	occāsā	occāsō		occāsīs
vocative	occāse	occāsa	occāsum		occāsī	occāsae	occāsa

References

• “occasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “occasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• occasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • sunrise; sunset: ortus, occasus solis
    
  • (ambiguous) to be situate to the north-west: spectare inter occasum solis et septentriones