caseus

From Proto-Indo-European *kwat- (“to ferment, become sour”). Related to Old English hwaþerian (“to roar, foam, surge”), dialectal Swedish hvå (“foam”), Latvian kūsāt (“to boil”), Old Church Slavonic квасъ (kvasŭ, “leaven; sour drink”), Sanskrit क्वथते (kváthate, “it boils”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.se.us/, [ˈkaː.se.ʊs]

cāseus m (genitive cāseī); second declension

1. cheese

Second declension.

• (cheese): fōrmāticum

• cāseārius

• caseus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caseus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caseus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• caseus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• caseus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers