"castus" meaning in Latin

See castus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈkas.tus/ [Classical-Latin], [ˈkäs̠t̪ʊs̠] [Classical-Latin], /ˈkas.tus/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈkäst̪us] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Verbal adjective from the same root of careō (“I lack”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”). Compare the meanings of pūrus/putus and derived putō. Related to Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌂𐌄 (castce). Etymology templates: {{der|la|ine-pro|*ḱes-||to cut}} Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”), {{cog|ett|𐌂𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌂𐌄}} Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌂𐌄 (castce) Head templates: {{la-adj|castus|adv=castē|comp=castior|sup=castissimus}} castus (feminine casta, neuter castum, comparative castior, superlative castissimus, adverb castē); first/second-declension adjective Inflection templates: {{la-adecl|castus}} Forms: casta [feminine], castum [neuter], castior [comparative], castissimus [superlative], castē [adverb], no-table-tags [table-tags], castus [masculine, nominative, singular], casta [feminine, nominative, singular], castum [neuter, nominative, singular], castī [masculine, nominative, singular], castae [feminine, nominative, plural], casta [neuter, nominative, plural], castī [genitive, masculine, singular], castae [feminine, genitive, singular], castī [genitive, neuter, singular], castōrum [genitive, masculine, singular], castārum [feminine, genitive, plural], castōrum [genitive, neuter, plural], castō [dative, masculine, singular], castae [dative, feminine, singular], castō [dative, neuter, singular], castīs [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter], castum [accusative, masculine, singular], castam [accusative, feminine, singular], castum [accusative, neuter, singular], castōs [accusative, masculine, singular], castās [accusative, feminine, plural], casta [accusative, neuter, plural], castō [ablative, masculine, singular], castā [ablative, feminine, singular], castō [ablative, neuter, singular], castīs [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter], caste [masculine, singular, vocative], casta [feminine, singular, vocative], castum [neuter, singular, vocative], castī [masculine, singular, vocative], castae [feminine, plural, vocative], casta [neuter, plural, vocative]
  1. morally pure, guiltless, spotless Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2 Synonyms: innoxius, īnsōns, innocēns
    Sense id: en-castus-la-adj-la:purity
  2. especially in regard to sexual morality: pure, chaste, unpolluted, virtuous, continent Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2
    Sense id: en-castus-la-adj-4mFpIivK Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension, Latin terms suffixed with -tus (action noun), Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 3 46 25 5 21 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension: 4 35 8 26 27 Disambiguation of Latin terms suffixed with -tus (action noun): 0 49 19 3 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 47 26 3 23 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 51 27 2 20
  3. pure, free from barbarisms Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2
    Sense id: en-castus-la-adj-XG~3x5~1
  4. in a religious context: religious, pious, holy, sacred Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2
    Sense id: en-castus-la-adj-P9qUD7SF
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: castificō, castīgō, castitās, Castī connūbiī (english: of chaste wedlock), incestus
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈkas.tus/ [Classical-Latin], [ˈkäs̠t̪ʊs̠] [Classical-Latin], /ˈkas.tus/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈkäst̪us] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From careō + -tus, thus from the same root as Etymology 1. Etymology templates: {{af|la|careō|-tus|id2=action noun}} careō + -tus Head templates: {{la-noun|castus<4>}} castus m (genitive castūs); fourth declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|castus<4>}} Forms: castūs [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], castus [nominative, singular], castūs [nominative, plural], castūs [genitive, singular], castuum [genitive, plural], castuī [dative, singular], castibus [dative, plural], castum [accusative, singular], castūs [accusative, plural], castū [ablative, singular], castibus [ablative, plural], castus [singular, vocative], castūs [plural, vocative]
  1. (pre-Classical, post-Classical) an abstinence from sensual enjoyments on religious grounds Tags: declension-4, masculine, post-Classical, pre-Classical Synonyms: castimōnia
    Sense id: en-castus-la-noun-la:abstinence Categories (other): Old Latin, Post-classical Latin
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: incestus
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "castificō"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "castīgō"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "castitās"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "english": "of chaste wedlock",
      "word": "Castī connūbiī"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "incestus"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ast",
            "2": "castu"
          },
          "expansion": "Asturian: castu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Asturian: castu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "cast"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: cast",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: cast"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "chaste",
            "3": "caste",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: chaste, caste",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: chaste, caste"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "chaste",
            "3": "caste"
          },
          "expansion": "French: chaste, caste",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: chaste, caste"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fur",
            "2": "cast"
          },
          "expansion": "Friulian: cast",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: cast"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gl",
            "2": "casto"
          },
          "expansion": "Galician: casto",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Galician: casto"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "casto"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: casto",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: casto"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "oc",
            "2": "cast"
          },
          "expansion": "Occitan: cast",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Occitan: cast"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "casto",
            "3": "casta"
          },
          "expansion": "Portuguese: casto, casta",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Portuguese: casto, casta"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "cast"
          },
          "expansion": "Romanian: cast",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romanian: cast"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "casto",
            "3": "casta"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: casto, casta",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: casto, casta"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ḱes-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to cut"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ett",
        "2": "𐌂𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌂𐌄"
      },
      "expansion": "Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌂𐌄 (castce)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Verbal adjective from the same root of careō (“I lack”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”). Compare the meanings of pūrus/putus and derived putō. Related to Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌂𐌄 (castce).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "casta",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castum",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castior",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castissimus",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castē",
      "tags": [
        "adverb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-adecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "casta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "casta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "casta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caste",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "casta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "casta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "castus",
        "adv": "castē",
        "comp": "castior",
        "sup": "castissimus"
      },
      "expansion": "castus (feminine casta, neuter castum, comparative castior, superlative castissimus, adverb castē); first/second-declension adjective",
      "name": "la-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "castus"
      },
      "name": "la-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "reus"
        },
        {
          "word": "obnoxius"
        },
        {
          "word": "noxius"
        },
        {
          "word": "cōnscius"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "morally pure, guiltless, spotless"
      ],
      "id": "en-castus-la-adj-la:purity",
      "links": [
        [
          "morally",
          "morally"
        ],
        [
          "pure",
          "pure"
        ],
        [
          "guiltless",
          "guiltless"
        ],
        [
          "spotless",
          "spotless"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "la:purity"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "innoxius"
        },
        {
          "word": "īnsōns"
        },
        {
          "word": "innocēns"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "3 46 25 5 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 35 8 26 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 49 19 3 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin terms suffixed with -tus (action noun)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "1 47 26 3 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 51 27 2 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Chaste, [she was] indeed, and yet had not been believed [to be so]:\nunjust slander had wronged her, and she was charged on a false accusation.\n(See Claudia Quinta.)",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.307–308",
          "roman": "laeserat, et falsī crīminis ācta rea est.",
          "text": "casta quidem, sed nōn et crēdita: rūmor inīquus"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "especially in regard to sexual morality: pure, chaste, unpolluted, virtuous, continent"
      ],
      "id": "en-castus-la-adj-4mFpIivK",
      "links": [
        [
          "pure",
          "pure"
        ],
        [
          "chaste",
          "chaste"
        ],
        [
          "unpolluted",
          "unpolluted"
        ],
        [
          "virtuous",
          "virtuous"
        ],
        [
          "continent",
          "continent"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "pure, free from barbarisms"
      ],
      "id": "en-castus-la-adj-XG~3x5~1",
      "links": [
        [
          "pure",
          "pure"
        ],
        [
          "free",
          "free"
        ],
        [
          "barbarisms",
          "barbarisms"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "in a religious context: religious, pious, holy, sacred"
      ],
      "id": "en-castus-la-adj-P9qUD7SF",
      "links": [
        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "pious",
          "pious"
        ],
        [
          "holy",
          "holy"
        ],
        [
          "sacred",
          "sacred"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkas.tus/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkäs̠t̪ʊs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkas.tus/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkäst̪us]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "castus"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "incestus"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "careō",
        "3": "-tus",
        "id2": "action noun"
      },
      "expansion": "careō + -tus",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From careō + -tus, thus from the same root as Etymology 1.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "castūs",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castūs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castūs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castuum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castuī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castūs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castū",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castūs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "castus<4>"
      },
      "expansion": "castus m (genitive castūs); fourth declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "castus<4>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old Latin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Post-classical Latin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an abstinence from sensual enjoyments on religious grounds"
      ],
      "id": "en-castus-la-noun-la:abstinence",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(pre-Classical, post-Classical) an abstinence from sensual enjoyments on religious grounds"
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "la:abstinence"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "castimōnia"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-4",
        "masculine",
        "post-Classical",
        "pre-Classical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkas.tus/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkäs̠t̪ʊs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkas.tus/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkäst̪us]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "castus"
}
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  "categories": [
    "Latin 2-syllable words",
    "Latin adjectives",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin first and second declension adjectives",
    "Latin fourth declension nouns",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin masculine nouns",
    "Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms suffixed with -tus (action noun)",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "castificō"
    },
    {
      "word": "castīgō"
    },
    {
      "word": "castitās"
    },
    {
      "english": "of chaste wedlock",
      "word": "Castī connūbiī"
    },
    {
      "word": "incestus"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ast",
            "2": "castu"
          },
          "expansion": "Asturian: castu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Asturian: castu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "cast"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: cast",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: cast"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "chaste",
            "3": "caste",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: chaste, caste",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: chaste, caste"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "chaste",
            "3": "caste"
          },
          "expansion": "French: chaste, caste",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: chaste, caste"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fur",
            "2": "cast"
          },
          "expansion": "Friulian: cast",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: cast"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gl",
            "2": "casto"
          },
          "expansion": "Galician: casto",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Galician: casto"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "casto"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: casto",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: casto"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "oc",
            "2": "cast"
          },
          "expansion": "Occitan: cast",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Occitan: cast"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "casto",
            "3": "casta"
          },
          "expansion": "Portuguese: casto, casta",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Portuguese: casto, casta"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "cast"
          },
          "expansion": "Romanian: cast",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romanian: cast"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "casto",
            "3": "casta"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: casto, casta",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: casto, casta"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ḱes-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to cut"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ett",
        "2": "𐌂𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌂𐌄"
      },
      "expansion": "Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌂𐌄 (castce)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Verbal adjective from the same root of careō (“I lack”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”). Compare the meanings of pūrus/putus and derived putō. Related to Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌂𐌄 (castce).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "casta",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castum",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castior",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castissimus",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castē",
      "tags": [
        "adverb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-adecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "casta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "casta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "casta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caste",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "casta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "casta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "castus",
        "adv": "castē",
        "comp": "castior",
        "sup": "castissimus"
      },
      "expansion": "castus (feminine casta, neuter castum, comparative castior, superlative castissimus, adverb castē); first/second-declension adjective",
      "name": "la-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "castus"
      },
      "name": "la-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "reus"
        },
        {
          "word": "obnoxius"
        },
        {
          "word": "noxius"
        },
        {
          "word": "cōnscius"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "morally pure, guiltless, spotless"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "morally",
          "morally"
        ],
        [
          "pure",
          "pure"
        ],
        [
          "guiltless",
          "guiltless"
        ],
        [
          "spotless",
          "spotless"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "la:purity"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "innoxius"
        },
        {
          "word": "īnsōns"
        },
        {
          "word": "innocēns"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Chaste, [she was] indeed, and yet had not been believed [to be so]:\nunjust slander had wronged her, and she was charged on a false accusation.\n(See Claudia Quinta.)",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.307–308",
          "roman": "laeserat, et falsī crīminis ācta rea est.",
          "text": "casta quidem, sed nōn et crēdita: rūmor inīquus"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "especially in regard to sexual morality: pure, chaste, unpolluted, virtuous, continent"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pure",
          "pure"
        ],
        [
          "chaste",
          "chaste"
        ],
        [
          "unpolluted",
          "unpolluted"
        ],
        [
          "virtuous",
          "virtuous"
        ],
        [
          "continent",
          "continent"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "pure, free from barbarisms"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pure",
          "pure"
        ],
        [
          "free",
          "free"
        ],
        [
          "barbarisms",
          "barbarisms"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "in a religious context: religious, pious, holy, sacred"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "pious",
          "pious"
        ],
        [
          "holy",
          "holy"
        ],
        [
          "sacred",
          "sacred"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkas.tus/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkäs̠t̪ʊs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkas.tus/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkäst̪us]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "castus"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Latin 2-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin fourth declension nouns",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin masculine nouns",
    "Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms suffixed with -tus (action noun)",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "incestus"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "careō",
        "3": "-tus",
        "id2": "action noun"
      },
      "expansion": "careō + -tus",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From careō + -tus, thus from the same root as Etymology 1.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "castūs",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
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        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castus",
      "source": "declension",
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castūs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castūs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castuum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castuī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castūs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castū",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "castūs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "castus<4>"
      },
      "expansion": "castus m (genitive castūs); fourth declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "castus<4>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old Latin",
        "Post-classical Latin"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an abstinence from sensual enjoyments on religious grounds"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(pre-Classical, post-Classical) an abstinence from sensual enjoyments on religious grounds"
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "la:abstinence"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "castimōnia"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-4",
        "masculine",
        "post-Classical",
        "pre-Classical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkas.tus/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkäs̠t̪ʊs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkas.tus/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkäst̪us]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "castus"
}

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  "msg": "Rowspan 999 over 30, set to 1",
  "path": [
    "castus"
  ],
  "section": "Latin",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "castus",
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}

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