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caseous
[ key-see-uhs ]
adjective
of or like cheese.
WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF CASEOUS?
The English adjective caseous derives from the Latin noun cāseus “cheese,” which in Latin comedy (Plautus), at least, is used as a term of endearment: molliculus cāseus “delicate cheese.” (Molliculus is a diminutive of the adjective mollis “soft.” Diminutives are characteristic of colloquial Latin, and therefore of comedy, and also exist in modern Romance languages, e.g., Italian orecchio “ear,” from auricula, a diminutive of auris “ear.”) The etymology of cāseus is unknown, but it may come from earlier, unrecorded kwātsos, meaning “something runny,” from the Proto-Indo-European root kwat- “to ferment; be, become, or make sour.” If that is so, cāseus may be related to Russian kvas “sour beer,” and Polish kwas “acid.” Caseous entered English in the mid-17th century.
HOW IS CASEOUS USED?
Second, eat these little caseous balloons immediately—like topical plays, they lose value every couple of minutes.
JONATHAN REYNOLDS, "SAY CHEESE BALLS," NEW YORK TIMES, SEPTEMBER 30, 2001
I have no doubt but that in the process of churning the whole milk there is a large amount of lactic acid formed, and a much higher temperature attained, than in the churning of cream; consequently, the separation of caseous matter must be more perfectly effected in the former than in the latter case.
CHARLES A. CAMERON, THE STOCK-FEEDER'S MANUAL: THE CHEMISTRY OF FOOD IN RELATION TO THE BREEDING AND FEEDING OF LIVE STOCK, 1868