casu
Dictionary entries
- Entry →casu:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
by chance/accident; accidentally; casually; (ablative of casus);
- Entry →cado, cadere, cecidi, casus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fall, sink, drop, plummet, topple; be slain, die; end, cease, abate; decay;
abl. sg. - Entry →casus, casus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fall, overthrow; chance/fortune; accident, emergency, calamity, plight; fate;; grammatical case; termination/ending (of words);
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
- M
Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...pellente relinquuntpoturae te, Nile, grues, primoque uolatueffingunt uarias casu monstrante figuras;mox, ubi percussit tensas Notus altior alas..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...terga daret, qua pectora bello.hoc tamen in casu quantum deprensa ualebateffecit uirtus: inter tot milia captae 470circumfusa rati..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...medium deferret Athon. sic ora profundi artantur casu nemorum; tunc aggere multo surgit opus longaeque tremunt super aequora..." - A
Capitula
Aulus Gellius
"...descendidi" dixerunt. X. Vt "ususcapio" copulate recto vocabuli casu dicitur, ita "pignoriscapio" coniuncte eadem vocabuli forma dictum esse..." - A
Liber XX
Aulus Gellius
"...pedibus forte aegris esset aut quo alio casu ingredi non quiret, plaustrum esse dandum censuerunt? neque insterni tamen..." - A
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...Nigidii, quibus dicit in nomine Valeri in casu vocandi primam syllabam acuendam esse; et item alia ex eiusdem..." - A
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...fiat contumelia, ita "contumelia mihi factum itur" casu tantum inmutato idem dicit. XV. De flaminis Dialis deque flaminicae..." - M
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...nobis nulla profecto 445numina: cum caeco rapiantur saecula casu,mentimur regnare Iouem. spectabit ab altoaethere Thessalicas, teneat..."
