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caducus
caducus
Latin
Adjective
cadūcus m (feminine cadūca, neuter cadūcum); first/second declension
- That falls or has fallen, falling, collapsing, drooping.
- That easily falls, inclined to fall
- Devoted to death, destined to die, doomed.
- (figuratively) Frail, fleeting, perishable, transitory; vain, futile.
- (law) Lapsed, vacant, escheatable, caducary.
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | cadūcus | cadūca | cadūcum | cadūcī | cadūcae | cadūca | |
| genitive | cadūcī | cadūcae | cadūcī | cadūcōrum | cadūcārum | cadūcōrum | |
| dative | cadūcō | cadūcō | cadūcīs | ||||
| accusative | cadūcum | cadūcam | cadūcum | cadūcōs | cadūcās | cadūca | |
| ablative | cadūcō | cadūcā | cadūcō | cadūcīs | |||
| vocative | cadūce | cadūca | cadūcum | cadūcī | cadūcae | cadūca | |
Derived terms
- cadūcārius
- cadūciter
- cadūcum
Related terms
Descendants
References
- caducus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- caducus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- CADUCUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “caducus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- caducus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016