Translation
case (grammatical, legal or medical)
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Word origin
From Latin casus, a falling, and so a happening or an instance. Roman grammarians used casus to translate the Greek ptosis, the falling of a noun into one of its forms, which is why the grammatical sense travelled with the word.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- casus
- English cognates
- case, casual, occasion
Examples
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Esperanto has only two cases.
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The doctor studied a difficult case.
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In that case the law is entirely clear.
is narrower than English case. It is the grammarian's case (Esperanto has a nominative and the -n accusative, and nothing else), and it is the lawyer's or doctor's case, a file with a person in it. The everyday sense, a thing that happened, belongs to okazi and its noun : is the ordinary "in that case", while leans technical. The accusative that makes up half of Esperanto's case system gets its own article on the accusative.
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Word family
Words built on kazo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- ĉiukazeadverb
in any case, anyway
ĉiukazo
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 16, lesson 8: kazo, nuligi, kuniklo and 6 more words.