Latin

Noun

caussa f ‎(genitive caussae); first declension

1. Archaic form of causa.

Inflection

First declension.

References

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

Old Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *kaud-ta or a connection to cudo, but could just as well be a non-IE loanword.

Noun

caussa

1. cause, reason, purpose
2. case, claim

Declension

Descendants

• Latin: causa (early Classical also still caussa)

References

• de Vaan, Michiel, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, vol. 7, of Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, Alexander Lubotsky ed., Leiden: Brill, 2008.