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Either you're building one or carrying one — both involve hauling weight you'd rather not.
means A particular situation, instance, or set of circumstances — or, separately, a container for holding or carrying something.
from Two different Latin sources collided into one English word. The 'situation' sense comes from Latin 'casus,' meaning a falling or a chance occurrence — literally 'that which has befallen you' — from 'cadere,' to fall (a cousin of 'cadence' and 'accident'). The 'container' sense comes from Latin 'capsa,' a box, from 'capere,' to hold or take (related to 'capacious' and 'capture'). They arrived in English by separate roads and happen to look identical — a coincidence, you might say, of cases.
- latin root
- From casus, meaning a fall or event
- grammar
- Latin had six; Finnish has fifteen
- legal weight
- Landmark rulings reshape entire nations from one dispute
- detective slang
- To case a place means to scout it
marbury v madison — 1803 supreme court case establishing judicial review of legislation
roe v wade — 1973 supreme court case legalizing abortion nationwide in usa