The corpus record — Latin

caseus

caseus · m

cheese

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 25.84/10k
De agri cultura 15 · 9.59/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
De Re Coquinaria 6 · 3.83/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 2 · 1.82/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 12 · 1.52/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Metamorphoses 6 · 1.12/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

cāsĕus — Lewis & Short

cāsĕus, i, m. (cāsĕum, i, n.,

Cato, R. R. 76, 3 and 4; Plaut. and Nov. ap. Non. p. 200, 9 sq.),

I cheese, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 3; Col. 7, 8, 1; 12, 12 sq.; Pall Mai, 9; Plin. 11, 42, 97, § 240 sq.; Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 72; Cic. Sen. 16, 56; Ov. F. 4, 371 al.: facere, Varr. l. l.: premere, Verg. E. 1, 35: figurare, Plin. 16, 38, 72, § 181.—As a comic term of endearment: molliculus and dulciculus caseus, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 157 and 179.

In the wild

casei Cato, De agri cultura 76
caseo Cato, De agri cultura 75
caseus Ovid, Fasti 4.371
Casei Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.8.1
caseus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.9.p2
caseo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.19.p1

6 of 114 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. caseus (scan p. 127; entry #1847).

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