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occasus

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Latin

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Etymology

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From occidō +‎ -tus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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occāsus m (genitive occāsūs); fourth declension

  1. setting (of the sun etc.)
  2. west

Declension

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Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative occāsus occāsūs
genitive occāsūs occāsuum
dative occāsuī occāsibus
accusative occāsum occāsūs
ablative occāsū occāsibus
vocative occāsus occāsūs

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Catalan: ocàs
  • Galician: ocaso
  • Italian: occaso
  • Portuguese: ocaso
  • Spanish: ocaso

Adjective

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occāsus (feminine occāsa, neuter occāsum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. setting
  2. western

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

References

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  • occasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • occasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • occasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • sunrise; sunset: ortus, occasus solis
    • (ambiguous) to be situate to the north-west: spectare inter occasum solis et septentriones