cause
French
noun
Definitions
- cause
- (law) case a legal proceeding
Etymology
Inherited from Old French cause (a thing, a cause) borrowed from Latin causa (cause, reason, account, case, lawsuit, dispute, motive, reproach, sake).
Origin
Latin
causa
Gloss
cause, reason, account, case, lawsuit, dispute, motive, reproach, sake
Concept
Semantic Field
Cognition
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
理
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cause English
- cause célèbre English
- *cosa Latin
- accusito Latin
- accuso Latin
- causa Latin
- causabilis Latin
- causalis Latin
- causidicus Latin
- causor Latin
- causālem, causāle(m) Latin
- causālis Latin
- excuso Latin
- incuso Latin
- recuso Latin
- causa Italian
- causale Italian
- cosa Italian
- causer French
- causerie French
- causette French
- causeur French
- monocause French
- causa Spanish, Castilian
- causar Spanish, Castilian
- causa Portuguese
- causar Portuguese
- *kausō Proto-Germanic
- cause Middle English
- kauza Czech
- cause Old French
- chose Old French
- causa Catalan, Valencian
- cosa Catalan, Valencian
- cauza Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- cauză Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- kōson Old High German
- caus, cauis Old Irish
- cause Norman
- kafshë Albanian
- cousa Old Portuguese
- кауза Macedonian
- causa Occitan
- cosa Asturian
- cjosse Friulian
- cosa Old Spanish
- gauza Basque
- cösa Ligurian
- koze Mauritian Creole
- chôze Bourguignon
- cossa Ladin
- caussa Old Latin
- cosa Aragonese
- cose Picard