occasum

occasum is a Latin form of occido, meaning “kill; (occido) fall, set, die”.

It can also be a form of occasus, “setting (of the sun); the west; downfall”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun or supine nominative singular neuter or perfect passive participle nominative singular neuter.

Found 94 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.1.7: Aquitania a Garumna flumine ad Pyrenaeos montes et eam partem Oceani quae est ad Hispaniam pertinet; spectat inter occasum solis et septentriones.]

All forms of occido (conjugation 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.