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căsa, ae, f. [Sanscr. khad, to cover; cf.: cassis, castrum],
- I. any simple or poorly-built house, a cottage, hut, cabin, shed, etc., Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 6; Lucr. 5, 1011; 6, 1254; Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97; Vitr. 2, 1; Verg. E. 2, 29; Tib. 2, 1, 24 et saep.; Cic. Fam. 16, 18, 2; a small country-house, Mart. 6, 43; Caes. B. G. 5, 43 Herz.; Veg. Mil. 2, 10.
Of babyhouses, Hor. S. 2, 3, 247.
- b. Casae, in late Lat. meton., a country estate, a farm, Cassiod. Var. 5, 14.
- B. Prov.: ita fugias, ne praeter casam, i. e. do not run so far as to pass the safest hiding-place, in allusion to a game of hide-and-seek, Ter. Phorm. 5, 2, 3.
- II. Esp.: casa Romuli, the thatched cottage of Romulus on the Capitoline Hill, Vitr. 2. 1; cf. Verg. A. 8, 654; Ov. F. 3, 183 sqq.
cāsābundus (in the best MSS. cassāb-, on account of the first long a, like cassus, caussa, Juppiter, etc.), a, um, adj. [caso], ready to fall, tottering, Naev. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 53 Müll.; Macr. S. 5, 21, 16; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 48 Müll.
casami, casamo, etc., v. 2. casnar.
căsārĭus, a, um, adj. [casa], of or belonging to a cottage; only substt.,
- I. Că-sārĭus, ii, n., a dweller in a cottage, a cottager, Cod. Th. 9, 42, 7.
- II. Căsārĭa, quae custodit casam, Paul. ex Fest. p. 48 Müll.
‡ 2. casnar, acc. to Quint. 1, 5, 8 Gallic, = assectator, attendant (Meyer, l. l. and Or. Rom. Fragm. p. 530 compares the old French, casnard, flatteur, adulateur; casnarder, aduler, idolatrer. But it is to be remarked that the best MSS. of Quint. l. l. give casami, casamo, casamum, and the like; v. Spald. and Zumpt N. cr. ad h. l.).