Casinum

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈsiː.num/, [käˈs̠iːnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈsi.num/, [käˈs̬iːnum]

Of uncertain origin. Said by Varro to be of Oscan/Samnite origin and to mean "old forum." However, compare Casilinum, Casinomagus, Casuentum. According to Villar, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱas- (“grey”), similar to canus, followed by the common name suffix -inum.

• Cassīnum

Casīnum n sg (genitive Casīnī); second declension

1. A town in Latium, east of Aquīnum, now ruins near San Germano (a.k.a. Cassino); its citadel the present Monte Cassino

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

• Casīnās
• Casīnēnsis
• Casīnus

• “Căsīnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Căsīnum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 270/2.
• “Casīnum” on page 281/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Villar: Villar, F. La complessità dei livelli di stratificazione indoeuropea nell'Europa occidentale, in Bocchi, G., Ceruti, M. (eds.), Le radici prime dell'Europa, Milano 2001.
• ^ Varro, De lingua latina, VII,28-29

• Casinum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Regularly declined forms of Casīnus.

Casīnum

1. inflection of Casīnus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular