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Latin
Etymology
From cadō (“to fall”) + -ūcus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cadūcus (feminine cadūca, neuter cadūcum); first/second-declension adjective
- That falls or has fallen, falling, collapsing, tottering, drooping.
- That easily falls, inclined to fall
- (poetic) Devoted to death, destined to die, doomed.
- (figuratively) Frail, fleeting, perishable, transitory; vain, futile.
- (law) Lapsed, vacant, escheatable, caducary.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “caducus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caducus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "caducus", 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)
- caducus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- caducus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016