[ˈkaː.sʊs], [ˈkaː.s̬us]
OriginFrom cāssus with regular degemination after a long vowel, for cadō (“to fall, happen”) + -tus (“action noun suffix”), from Proto-Italic *kadō, Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d- (“to fall”). The grammatical sense is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek πτῶσις (ptôsis) (whence also calqued Old Church Slavonic падежь (padežĭ) (Russian паде́ж (padéž)), German Fall).
- declension-4a fall, downwards movement
- declension-4accident, chance
- declension-4an event, happening, occurrence
- declension-4misfortune, disaster, destruction, accident
“quem saepe trānsiit cāsus, aliquandō invenit.” — he who oft has shunned misfortune meets at last his fate.
- declension-4A case, termination
- declension-2, masculine, singularCasus (a river in Caucasian Albania)
Formscāsus(canonical, masculine) · cāsūs(genitive) · cāsus(nominative, singular) · cāsūs(nominative, plural) · cāsūs(genitive, singular) · cāsuum(genitive, plural) · cāsuī(dative, singular) · cāsibus(dative, plural) · cāsum(accusative, singular) · cāsūs(accusative, plural) · cāsū(ablative, singular) · cāsibus(ablative, plural) · cāsus(singular, vocative) · cāsūs(plural, vocative) · cassus(alternative) · Casī(genitive) · Casus(nominative, singular) · Casī(genitive, singular) · Casō(dative, singular) · Casum(accusative, singular)