caseus

From Proto-Indo-European *kwh₂et- (“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/, [ˈkäːs̠eʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.se.us/, [ˈkäːs̬eus]

cāseus m (genitive cāseī); second declension

1. cheese
   • 8 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)

Second-declension noun.

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “caseus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 456

• “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