causam

causam is a Latin form of causa, meaning “cause, reason; case, lawsuit”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 2,029 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.4.1: Ea res est Helvetiis per indicium enuntiata. Moribus suis Orgetoricem ex vinculis causam dicere coegerunt; damnatum poenam sequi oportebat, ut igni cremaretur.

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 4.9.1: Causam per hos dies dixit Iulius Bassus, homo laboriosus et adversis suis clarus. Accusatus est sub Vespasiano a privatis duobus; ad senatum remissus diu pependit, tandem absolutus vindicatusque.

All forms of causa (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.