casualty
English
/ˈkaʒ(ʊ)əlti/
noun
Definitions
- Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
- A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
- (proscribed) Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
- (military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
- (British) The accident and emergency department of a hospital.
- An incidental charge or payment.
- (obsolete) Chance nature; randomness.
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d- (fall).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱh₂d-
Gloss
fall
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- accidence English
- accidentally English
- incident English
- occiduous English
- recidivate English
- recidivism English
- recidivistic English
- recidivous English
- accidēns Latin
- cadaver Latin
- cadere Latin
- cadāver Latin
- casus Latin
- cāsuālis Latin
- decadens Latin
- decadentia Latin
- decido Latin
- dēciduus Latin
- dēcidō, decidere Latin
- excido Latin
- incidens Latin
- occasionem Latin
- occidens Latin
- occidentalis Latin
- occidentem Latin
- recidivus Latin
- recido Latin
- cascata Italian
- coïncider French
- récidiviste French
- *ḱad- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱh₂d- Proto-Indo-European
- *kadō Proto-Italic