cascus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *kaskos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₁s-ko-/*ḱh₂(e)s-ko-, from *ḱHs- (whence also Latin cānus (“white”)). Cognate with Welsh cannu (“to whiten”), ceinach (“hare”), English hare, Latin cānus (“grayish-white”), Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی (soe, “hare”), Sanskrit शश (śaśá, “hare”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkas.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkas.kus] === Adjective === cascus (feminine casca, neuter cascum); first/second-declension adjective (Old Latin) (archaic) ancient, olden Second C. BCE, unknown author, Carmen Priami 1: Veterēs Casmēnās cascam rem volō prōfārī... I want the Camenae of old to tell of an ancient tale... c. 310 CE – c. 395 CE, Ausonius, Epistles 22.27–28: Et nunc parāvit trīticum cascō sale, novusque pollet emporus. And now he's bartered wheat for ancient salt, and flourishes as a self-made merchant. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “cascus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cascus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "cascus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)