caducus

Latin

Etymology

From cadō (“to fall”) +‎ -ūcus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈduː.kus/, [käˈd̪uːkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈdu.kus/, [käˈd̪uːkus]

Adjective

cadūcus (feminine cadūca, neuter cadūcum); first/second-declension adjective

1. That falls or has fallen, falling, collapsing, tottering, drooping.
2. That easily falls, inclined to fall
3. (poetic) Devoted to death, destined to die, doomed.
4. (figuratively) Frail, fleeting, perishable, transitory; vain, futile.
5. (law) Lapsed, vacant, escheatable, caducary.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cadūcus	cadūca	cadūcum		cadūcī	cadūcae	cadūca
genitive	cadūcī	cadūcae	cadūcī		cadūcōrum	cadūcārum	cadūcōrum
dative	cadūcō	cadūcae	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

• cadō

Descendants

• Catalan: caduc
• → English: caducous
• Middle French: caduc
  • → Dutch: kaduuk
  • French: caduc
    • → Turkish: kadük
• Galician: caduco
• → German: kaduk
• Italian: caduco
• Portuguese: caduco
• Spanish: caduco
• Esperanto: kaduka
• → Translingual: Caduca

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• caducus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• caducus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016