cassus
Latin
Etymology
Verbal adjective of the same root as careō (“I lack”), castus (“pure”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.sus/, [ˈkäs̠ːʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.sus/, [ˈkäsːus]
Adjective
cassus (feminine cassa, neuter cassum); first/second-declension adjective
- hollow, empty, devoid of something
- lacking
- useless, fruitless, vain, futile
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | cassus | cassa | cassum | cassī | cassae | cassa | |
| Genitive | cassī | cassae | cassī | cassōrum | cassārum | cassōrum | |
| Dative | cassō | cassō | cassīs | ||||
| Accusative | cassum | cassam | cassum | cassōs | cassās | cassa | |
| Ablative | cassō | cassā | cassō | cassīs | |||
| Vocative | casse | cassa | cassum | cassī | cassae | cassa | |
Derived terms
- cassō
- in cassum
- nux cassa (a nutshell)
Descendants
- Portuguese: casso
References
- “cassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cassus 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)
- cassus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette