casso Latin · revision 10033

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Theodosian Code|origins=la cassus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkas.soː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkas.so]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cassō''' (present infinitive cassāre, perfect active cassāvī, supine cassātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cassus|-ō|t1=empty, void]].^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Etymonline instead traces Late Latin ⟨cassāre⟩ to [[quassō]] “to shake, quash”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Gaffiot cites the Theodosian Code, of annulling, and Köbler lists Gregory of Tours.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Gregory 538/539–594 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Late Latin, it meant to bring to nothing, destroy, as in Sidonius, and in legal language to annul, make void, as in the Theodosian Code.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to annul, make void, destroy.^(Stelten 1995) English ''cassate'' (1510s, “to annul”) is from its participle ''cassātus''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 538/539–594 AD – Gregory of Tours uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1510s – English ''cassate'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|annul]], make void.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To bring to nothing, destroy.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cassus]]

+ * [[quassō]]

+ * [[en|cassation]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The OLD's ''cassō'' is a Plautine word “to totter, begin to fall”, which it derives from ''cadō'', and Lewis & Short and Wiktionary take it as a form of ''quassō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Gregory of Tours also has an adverb ''cassō'' “in vain”.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}