caseus

Unknown according to De Vaan.[1] The old hypothesis deriving it from Proto-Indo-European *kwh₂et- (“to ferment, become sour”)[2] has the problem that *w isn't supposed to disappear in Latin (the expected outcome would start with qua- and not ca-) .

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.se.us/, [ˈkäːs̠eʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.se.us/, [ˈkäːs̬eus]

cāseus m (genitive cāseī); second declension

1. cheese
   • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.769:

     ‘ūbera plēna premam, referat mihi cāseus āera,
     dentque viam liquidō vīmina rāra sērō.’

     ‘‘Let me squeeze full udders, may my cheese repay me with money,
     and may the wicker strainer give a passage to the liquid whey.’’
     (A shepherd’s prayer to Pales.)

   Synonyms: fōrmāticum, fōrmāgium (medieval)

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• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “caseus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, pages –456-58