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cascus

old

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Where it lives

Letters to and from Brutus 2 · 2.1/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 2 · 1.38/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

1. cascus — de Vaan

cascus 'old' [adj. o/a] (Enn,+) Pit *kas-ko- 'grey'. PIE *kh|S-ko- / *kh2(e)s-ko-. IE cognates: see s.v. canus. Possibly, cascus was used pejoratively, cf. caecus 'blind', luscus 'one-eyed, cross-eyed', which also have *-£*>-. The meaning 'old' probably developed from 'old of age' < 'having white hair'; compare NHG Greis, MoDu. grijsaard 'old man\ Lat. cascus never occurs in Latin texts: all attestations are … — [de Vaan, s.v. cascus, p. 110]

2. cascus — Lewis & Short

cascus, a, um, adj.cf. canus,

I old: cascum significat vetus: ejus origo Sabina quae usque radices in Oscam linguam egit, Varr. L. L. 7, § 28; cf. Müll. Etrusk. 1, p. 41, and v. casnar: quam prisci casci populi tenuere Latini, Enn. Ann. 24 Vahl.; cf. Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 27; so Manil. and Papin. ap. Varr. l. l.; Att. ib.: sal, Aus. Ep. 22, 27.— Hence, * cascē, adv.: casce nimis et prisce loquens, in an old-fashioned manner, Gell. 1, 10 in lemm.

In the wild

Casca Cicero, Letters to and from Brutus 1.18.1
casce Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.10.a
Casca Cicero, Letters to and from Brutus 1.17.1
Casca Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.25.3.17
cascos Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.26.p4
Casca Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 p3

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. cascus (scan p. 110; entry #217).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cascus (scan p. 785; entry #13199).

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