causa
Portuguese
/ˈkaw.zɐ/
noun
Definitions
- cause, reason
- (law) suit, lawsuit
- goal, aim
Etymology
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
- by-cause English
- bycause English
- causable English
- causation English
- cause English
- cause célèbre English
- causee English
- causeful English
- causeless English
- causer English
- causest English
- causeth English
- concause English
- forcause English
- subcause English
- uncause 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
- cause French
- causer French
- monocause French
- causa Spanish, Castilian
- causar Spanish, Castilian
- causar Portuguese
- *kausō Proto-Germanic
- cause Middle English
- kauza Czech
- cause Old French
- chose Old French
- kaŭzo Esperanto
- causa Catalan, Valencian
- cosa Catalan, Valencian
- cauză Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- kōson Old High German
- caus, cauis Old Irish
- kafshë Albanian
- cousa Old Portuguese
- кауза Macedonian
- causa Occitan
- cosa Asturian
- cjosse Friulian
- cosa Old Spanish
- gauza Basque
- cösa Ligurian
- chôze Bourguignon
- cossa Ladin
- caussa Old Latin
- cosa Aragonese
- cose Picard