casuista
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin cāsus (“occurrence, chance, happening”) + -ista. By surface analysis, cas + -ista.
Noun
casuista m or f by sense (plural casuistes)
- casuist (person)
Adjective
casuista m or f (masculine and feminine plural casuistes)
- casuistic, casuistical
- Synonym: casuístic
Further reading
- “casuista”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin cāsus (“occurrence, chance, happening”) + -ista. By surface analysis, caso + -ista.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈswista/ [kaˈswis.t̪a]
- Rhymes: -ista
- Syllabification: ca‧suis‧ta
Noun
casuista m or f by sense (plural casuistas)
- casuist (person)
Adjective
casuista m or f (masculine and feminine plural casuistas)
- casuistic, casuistical
- Synonym: casuístico
Further reading
- “casuista”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024