casus

Meaning

1. (declension-4) a fall, downwards movement
2. (declension-4) accident, chance
3. (declension-4) an event, happening, occurrence
4. (declension-4) misfortune, disaster, destruction, accident
5. (declension-4) A case, termination

Concepts

case

accident

fall

chance

🎲

accidence

grammatical case

drop

adventure

fate

false step

fortune

violent death

hazard

misadventure

collapse

dative

downfall

punch line

randomness

scrap

vocative

Czech

🇨🇿

a falling

falling out

waterfall

Hindi

Latin

Ojibwe

Romanian

🇷🇴

Sanskrit

aberration

ablative case

accusative

accusative case

cadence

dative case

event

genitive

nominative case

occasion

opportunity

Opposite of

commodum, commoditās

Synonyms

fortuna

accidens

dativus

eventa

casus nominativus

ablativus

sextus

6th

latinus

patrius casus

cāsus

casus comparativus

casus sextus

casus latinus

lapsus

accusativus

casus ablativus

casus genetivus

Translations

Fall

cas

caso

🎲

caso

Kasus

chute

πτώση

naamval

caso

hasard

Unfall

cas

accident

Zufall

🎲

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈkaː.sʊs]

Etymology

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) (whence also calqued Old Church Slavonic падежь (padežĭ) (Russian паде́ж (padéž)), German Fall).