English
caseous
Caseous comes from Latin cāseus ‘cheese’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcāseus‘cheese’
- Englishearliest quotation 1790caseous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcāseus‘cheese’
- Englishearliest quotation 1790caseous
Earliest quotation: 1790, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, Of the Milk: “The cheeſe, or caſeous part of milk, is formed…”
Formed from cāseus + -ous
Linked words
through Latin cāseus ‘cheese’
Today it means
adj Resembling cheese.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin cāseus / caseous