casus

casus

1. (logic, philosophy, obsolete) A possible world, as a starting point for reasoning.

Borrowed from Arabic جَاسُوس (jāsūs).

• IPA^(key): ,
• Hyphenation: ca‧sus

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casus (definite accusative casusu, plural casuslar)

1. spy

Borrowed from Latin cāsus (“chance, event”), the past participle of cadō (“to fall, happen”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.zʏs/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧sus

casus m (plural casussen or casus, diminutive casusje n)

1. (law) a legal case

   Synonyms: rechtzaak, zaak

2. a case, occurrence, instance, especially used for a case study, reference or teaching example

   Synonym: geval

3. (grammar) a case, (instance of) grammatical case

   Synonym: naamval

4. a coincidence

   Synonym: toeval

• casuïstiek

• → Dutch: c.q.
• → Indonesian: kasus

• cassus (regular Republican spelling)

From 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).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.sus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.sus/,

cāsus m (genitive cāsūs); fourth declension

1. a fall, downwards movement
2. accident, chance
3. an event, happening, occurrence
4. misfortune, disaster, destruction, accident

   Synonyms: plāga, incommodum, dētrīmentum, clādēs, interitus, perniciēs, exitium, vulnus, calamitās, incommoditās, pestis, īnfortūnium, cruciātus, miseria, malum, nūbēs

   Antonyms: commodum, commoditās

   • L. Annaeus Seneca, Hercules 328:

     quem saepe trānsiit cāsus, aliquandō invenit.

     Misfortune will finds whom it often has spared.

5. (grammar) A case, termination

Fourth-declension noun.

• (grammar): nōminātīvus, genitīvus/genetīvus, datīvus, accūsātīvus, ablātīvus, vocātīvus, locātīvus, īnstrumentālis

• cāsuālis
• cāsus bellī

• “casus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “casus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• casus 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)
• casus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to foresee the far distant future: futura or casus futuros (multo ante) prospicere
    
  • by some chance or other: nescio quo casu (with Indic.)
    
  • the changes and chances of this life: ancipites et varii casus
    
  • to have to submit to the uncertainties of fortune; to be subject to Fortune's caprice: sub varios incertosque casus subiectum esse
    
  • to experience the ups and downs of life: multis casibus iactari
    
  • to be prepared for all that may come: ad omnes casus subsidia comparare
    
  • to prepare oneself for all contingencies: ad omnes casus se comparare
    
  • to foresee political events long before: longe prospicere futuros casus rei publicae (De Amic. 12. 40)
    
  • (ambiguous) affairs are desperate; we are reduced to extremeties: res ad extremum casum perducta est
    
• casus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “casus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Unadapted borrowing from Latin cāsus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.zus/
• Rhymes: -azus
• Syllabification: ca‧sus

casus m inan

1. (law) Alternative spelling of kazus

• casus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• casus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Ottoman Turkish جاسوس (casus), from Arabic جَاسُوس (jāsūs).

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casus (definite accusative casusu, plural casuslar)

1. spy

   Synonym: ajan

• casusluk

• ajan
• muhbir
• çaşıt

Borrowed from Arabic جَاسُوس (jāsūs).

• (Northern Zazaki) IPA^(key):
• (Southern Zazaki) IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ca‧sus

casus (plural -i)

1. spy

• casusiye kerdene