Caso

See also: Appendix:Variations of "caso"

English

Proper noun

Caso (plural Casos)

  1. A surname.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Caso is the 17951st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1557 individuals. Caso is most common among White (71.03%) and Hispanic/Latino (26.2%) individuals.

Anagrams

Marsian

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps related to Latin Kaesō. It may also be related to Latin cascus.

Proper noun

Caso m

  1. Marsian praenomen
    • c. 294 BC, Caso Cantovios inscription (Italian Wikipedia; image 1, image 2):
      CASO·CANTOVIO/S·APRUFCLANO·CEI/P(ED)·APURFINEM·E/CALICO·MENUR/BID·CASONTONI/SOCIEQUE·DONO/M·ATOLERO·ACTIA·/PRO·L[ECIO]NIBUS·MAR/TSES
      Casos Cantovios Aprufclanos captured (this) near the finis Gallicus in the city of Casontonius, and his socii brought it as a gift to Angitia on behalf of the Marsic troops.

Usage notes

Conway interprets the term as nominative singular, although it has also been interpreted as genitive singular.

References

  • Robert Seymour Conway (1897) The Italic Dialects‎[1] (overall work in English), Cambridge University Press, page 607
  • Archaic Latin Inscriptions. Inscriptions Proper 2. Dedicatory Inscriptions‎[2] (quotation in English; overall work in English), 1940, page 58
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