casu

Borrowed from Latin cāsus.

casu m (plural casos)

1. case

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.suː/, [ˈkäːs̠uː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.su/, [ˈkäːs̬u]

cāsū m

1. ablative singular of cāsus (“a fall; falling down; accident, occurrence, chance event; end, termination; case”)

cāsū (not comparable)

1. accidentally, by accident, by chance

• “casu”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sasu]

casu

1. locative singular of cas

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasu/, [ˈkäː.zu]

From Latin cāseus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kwh₂et- (“to ferment”). Compare Romanian caș, Spanish queso, Portuguese queijo.

casu m (plural casos)

1. cheese

From Latin cāsus.

casu m (plural casos)

1. case

• caciu

Ultimately from Latin cāseus of unknown origin (through vulgar *kas(j)u). Cognate with Italian cacio, Neapolitan caso, Sardinian casu, Aragonese and Spanish queso, Portuguese queijo, Aromanian cash, Romanian caș. Doublet of caciu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.su/, [ˈka.sʊ]
• Rhymes: -asu
• Hyphenation: cà‧su

casu m (plural casi)

1. (countable and uncountable) cheese

   Synonyms: tumazzu, furmaggiu, caciu

From Latin cāsus, possibly borrowed via Italian caso. Cognate with Italian, Neapolitan, Portuguese, and Spanish caso, Occitan and Catalan cas, Asturian casu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.su/, [ˈka.sʊ]
• Rhymes: -asu
• Hyphenation: cà‧su

casu m (plural casi)

1. coincidence, accident (event that happens by chance)

   Synonyms: cuincidenza, mmàttita

   È sulamenti nu casu.

   It's just a coincidence.

2. chance, fate

   Synonyms: fatu, furtuna, pruvvidenza, sorti

   M'affidu ô casu.

   I trust to chance.

3. case, circumstance, matter

   Synonym: scaciuni

   U casu di Sciacca. ― The case of Sciacca.

4. (grammar) case

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “casu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 760–761
• Traina, Antonino (1868) “càciu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 607
• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1217: “salare il formaggio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it