causa

1. inflection ofcausar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic)[ˈkaw.zə]
• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[ˈkaw.za]
• Rhymes:-awza
• Hyphenation:cau‧sa

Borrowed fromLatincausa. Doublet of the inheritedcosa. Cognates includeEnglishcause,Frenchcause,Italiancausa,Portuguesecausa,Spanishcausa.

causa f (pluralcauses)

1. cause(the source of, the reason for)
2. (law)lawsuit

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

causa

1. inflection ofcausar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• “causa” inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

FromLatincausa.

causa f

1. thing

• IPA^(key):/ko.za/

• Audio:

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• Homophones:causas,causât

causa

1. third-personsingular past historic ofcauser

• IPA^(key):/ˈkawsa/[ˈkɑw.s̺ɐ]
• Rhymes:-awsa
• Hyphenation:cau‧sa

Learned borrowing fromLatincausa. Doublet of the inheritedcousa.

causa f (pluralcausas)

1. cause

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “causa”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “causa”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “causa”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “causa”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

causa

1. inflection ofcausar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

causa (pluralcausas)

1. cause(someone or something that causes a result)

• causal

• IPA^(key):/ˈkaw.sa/
• Rhymes:-awsa
• Hyphenation:càu‧sa

Borrowed fromLatincausa. Doublet of the inheritedcosa. Cognates includeEnglish andFrenchcause,Portuguese andSpanishcausa.

causa f (pluralcause)

1. cause
2. (law)lawsuit

   Synonym:lite

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

causa

1. inflection ofcausare:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• a causa di
• causare

• causale
• cosa

• caussa(used by Cicero and a little after him)

FromOld Latincaussa, fromProto-Italic*kaussā, further origin unknown. Connected by some toLatincudo(“I strike”), in the sense "strike a cause," in which theProto-Indo-European form would be*kewh₂-ud-ʰ-t-, from*kewh₂-(“to cut, strike”).^[1][2] Others are skeptical of an Indo-European origin.^[3] Related toEtruscan𐌂𐌀𐌅𐌔𐌀(cavsa).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈkau̯.sa/,[ˈkäu̯s̠ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈkau̯.sa/,[ˈkäːu̯sä]

causa f (genitivecausae);first declension

1. cause,reason

   qua decausa/qua de re/quam obcausam ―for thisreason/therefore

   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid4.169–170:

     Ille diēs prīmus lētī prīmusque malōrum
     causa fuit [...].

     That day – a first of death, and onset of misery – it was thecause [of everything].
     (The union of Dido and Aeneas begets tragedy.)

2. (law)case,claim,contention
3. cause,judicialprocess,lawsuit

   Synonym:cognitiō

4. motive,reason,pretext,inducement,motivation
5. condition,occasion,situation,state
6. (figuratively)justification,explanation
7. (Medieval Latin)thing

First-declension noun.

causā (+genitive)

1. for the sake of,on account of

   urbiscausā ―for the sake of the city

• “causa”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “causa”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "causa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• causa inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • on the spur of the moment:temporis causa
    
  • to make not the slightest effort; not to stir a finger:manum non vertere alicuius rei causa
    
  • my position is considerably improved; my prospects are brighter:res meae meliore loco, in meliore causa sunt
    
  • my circumstances have not altered:eadem est causa mea orin eadem causa sum
    
  • to quote as a reason; give as excuse:causam afferre
    
  • for valid reasons:iustis decausis
    
  • cogent, decisive reasons:magnae (graves) necessariae causae
    
  • on good grounds; reasonably:non sine causa
    
  • how came it that...:quid causae fuit cur...?
    
  • the motive, cause, is to be found in..:causa posita est in aliqua re
    
  • the motive, cause, is to be found in..:causa repetenda est ab aliqua re (notquaerenda)
    
  • I was induced by several considerations to..:multae causae me impulerunt ad aliquid orut...
    
  • to interpose, put forward an argument, a reason:causam interponere orinterserere
    
  • to find a suitable pretext:causam idoneam nancisci
    
  • under the pretext, pretence of..:per causam (with Gen.)
    
  • cause and effect:causae rerum et consecutiones
    
  • extraneous causes:causae extrinsecus allatae (opp.in ipsa re positae)
    
  • concatenation, interdependence of causes:rerum causae aliae ex aliis nexae
    
  • to leave the question open; to refuse to commit oneself:integrum (causam integram) sibi reservare
    
  • to be favourably disposed towards:alicuius causavelle orcupere
    
  • to speak of some one respectfully:honoris causa aliquem nominare orappellare
    
  • for one's own diversion; to satisfy a whim:voluptatis oranimi causa (B. G. 5. 12)
    
  • in memory of..:memoriae causa, ad (notin)memoriam (Brut. 16. 62)
    
  • to cite a person or a thing as an example:aliquem (aliquid) exempli causaponere, proferre, nominare, commemorare
    
  • a digression, episode:quod ornandi causa additum est
    
  • for political reasons:rei publicaecausa (Sest. 47. 101)
    
  • to embrace the cause of..., be a partisan of..:alicuius partes (causam) or simplyaliquem sequi
    
  • the aristocracy (as a party in politics):boni cives, optimi, optimates, also simplyboni (opp.improbi);illi, qui optimatium causam agunt
    
  • to take up the cause of the people, democratic principles:causam popularem suscipere ordefendere
    
  • to be a leading spirit of the popular cause:populi causam agere
    
  • to hold an inquiry into a matter:aliquid, causam cognoscere
    
  • without any examination:incognita causa (cf. sect. XV. 3,indicta causa)
    
  • a civil case:causa privata
    
  • a criminal case:causa publica (Brut. 48. 178)
    
  • to conduct a person's case (said of an agent, solicitor):causam alicuius agere (apud iudicem)
    
  • to address the court (of the advocate):causam dicere, orare (Brut. 12. 47)
    
  • to defend oneself before the judge (of the accused):causam dicere
    
  • to defend a person:causam dicere pro aliquo
    
  • to conduct some one's defence in a case:causam alicuius defendere
    
  • to have a good case:causam optimam habere (Lig. 4. 10)
    
  • to gain a weak case by clever pleading:causam inferiorem dicendo reddere superiorem (λόγον κρείττω ποιειν) (Brut. 8. 30)
    
  • counsel; advocate:patronus(causae) (De Or. 2. 69)
    
  • to undertake a case:causam suscipere
    
  • to undertake a case:ad causam aggredi oraccedere
    
  • without going to law:indicta causa (opp.cognita causa)
    
  • to win a case:causam orlitem obtinere
    
  • to lose one's case:causam orlitem amittere, perdere
    
  • to decide on the conduct of the case:iudicare causam (de aliqua re)
    
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

• IPA^(key):[ˈkawzo]

• Audio:

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Borrowed fromLatincausa.

causa f (pluralcausas)

1. cause

   Synonym:encausa

• causar

FromOld Occitan[Term?], inherited fromLatincausa (in these dialects/varieties). Cf. alsoencausa(“cause”).

causa f (pluralcausas)

1. (Gascony,Languedoc)thing

• chausa(Auvergne,Limousin,Provençal,Vivaro-Alpine)
• còsa(Guardiol)
• cauva(Provençal)

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 157.

• Rhymes:-awzɐ
• Hyphenation:cau‧sa

Learned borrowing fromLatincausa. Doublet of the inheritedcoisa andcousa. Cognates includeEnglish andFrenchcause,Italian andSpanishcausa.

causa f (pluralcausas)

1. cause,reason
2. (law)suit,lawsuit
3. goal,aim

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

causa

1. inflection ofcausar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• “causa”, iniDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital,2008–2025
• “causa”, inDicionário inFormal (in Portuguese),2006–2025
• “causa” inDicionário Aberto based onNovo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “causa”, inDicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora,2003–2025
• “causa”, inMichaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos,2015–2025
• “causa”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam,2008–2025

Possibly fromOccitancauça, fromVulgar Latin*calcea (through the intermadiatescalza~cauza), ultimately fromLatincalceus. Cognate withItaliancalza (calzetta,calzone).

• canza(nasalized from earliercalza)

• IPA^(key):/ˈkaw.sa/,[ˈkaw.sa],[ˈka.ʊ.sa],[ˈka.vʊ.sa]
• Rhymes:-ausa
• Hyphenation:càu‧sa

causa f (pluralcausi)

1. (dated,clothing) Any garment worn from the feet up, possibly reaching to the waist.

   Synonym:causetta

2. (pluralia tantum)causi:pants,trousers,pantaloons

Borrowed fromLatincausa. Doublet of the inheritedcosa. Cognates includeEnglish andFrenchcause,Italian,Portuguese, andSpanishcausa.

• cosa(inherited)

• IPA^(key):/ˈka.u.sa/,[ˈka.ʊ.sa],[ˈkaw.sa],[ˈka.vʊ.sa]
• Rhymes:-ausa
• Hyphenation:càu‧sa

causa f (pluralcausi)

1. cause
2. (law)lawsuit

   Synonym:sciarra

• IPA^(key):/ˈkausa/[ˈkau̯.sa]

• Audio(Mexico):

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• Rhymes:-ausa
• Syllabification:cau‧sa

Borrowed fromLatincausa. Doublet of the inheritedcosa. Cognates includeEnglishcause,Frenchcause,Italiancausa,Portuguesecausa.

causa f (pluralcausas)

1. cause
2. (law)lawsuit

Borrowed fromQuechuakawsay(“life”), influenced by the term above.

causa f (pluralcausas)

1. a dish in Peruvian cuisine made with potatoes and layered or topped with meat or vegetables

   Synonyms:causa a la limeña,causa limeña

2. (colloquial,Peru,slang)dude,mate,bro

   Synonyms:seeThesaurus:tío

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

causa

1. inflection ofcausar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• “causa”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• “causa”, inDiccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish),Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish:Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española],2010
• 1.DiPerú | Diccionario de peruanismos en línea
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