case

English

/keɪs/

noun
Definitions
  • An actual event, situation, or fact.
  • (now) A given condition or state.
  • A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
  • (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
  • (legal) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
  • (grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.
  • (grammar) grammatical Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
  • (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
  • (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English cas derived from Old French cas (an event) derived from Latin casus (occasion, a fall, noun case, a falling, occurrence, accident, event, opportunity) root from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d- (fall).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ḱh₂d-

Gloss

fall

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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