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Latin
Etymology
Verbal adjective of the same root as careō (“I lack”), castus (“pure”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
cassus (feminine cassa, neuter cassum); first/second-declension adjective
- hollow, empty, devoid of something
- lacking
- useless, fruitless, vain, futile
- Synonyms: vānus, inānis, irritus, fūtilis
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “careō (> Derivatives > cassus)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 92-3
Further reading
- “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.