cascus

From Proto-Italic *kaskos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₁s-ko-/*ḱh₂(e)s-ko-,^[1] from *ḱHs- (whence also Latin cānus (“white”)). Cognate with Welsh cannu (“to whiten”), ceinach (“hare”), English hare, Latin cānus (“grayish-white”), Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی (soe, “hare”), Sanskrit शश (śaśá, “hare”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.kus/, [ˈkäs̠kʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.kus/, [ˈkäskus]

cascus (feminine casca, neuter cascum); first/second-declension adjective (Old Latin)

1. (archaic) ancient, olden
   • 239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius, Annales 24:

     ...quam prīscī cascī populī tenuēre Latīnī...

     ...which the ancient Latin folk of eld did hold...

   • Second C. BCE, unknown author, Carmen Priami 1:

     Veterēs Casmēnās cascam rem volō prōfārī...

     I want the Camenae of old to tell of an ancient tale...

   • c. 310 CE – c. 395 CE, Ausonius, Epistles 22.27–28:

     Et nunc parāvit trīticum cascō sale,
     novusque pollet emporus.

     And now he's bartered wheat for ancient salt,
     and flourishes as a self-made merchant.

First/second-declension adjective.

• Cascus

• “cascus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cascus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cascus 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)