“cause” in Latin

causa (general term: also “pretence”): fons: origo (source). (The words are found in this connection and order), causa et fons: causa et origo: auctor: effector: princeps (cause when an agent; SYN. in AUTHOR): ansa: materia (occasion, handle for anything); ratio (ground): unde fit aliquid. The sun is the cause of warmth, sol est caloris origo et fons: nothing happens without a cause, nihil evenit sine causa antecedente: he is the cause of the war, ille est auctor or concitator belli: to search for a cause for declaring war, materiam belli quaerere: to give anybody cause for blaming one, ansam dare ad reprehendendum: to have just cause for blaming anybody, ansam reprehensionis habere: to seek for a cause, causam quaerere; materiam alicujus rei quaerere; ansam quaerere ut, etc.; occasionem aliquid faciendi quaerere: to invent or feign causes, causas confingere: to have good cause to do anything, cum causa aliquid facere; non sine gravi causa aliquid facere: without cause, sine causa; temere: not without cause, non temere: for more causes than one, aliquot de causis: for what cause? quamobrem? qua de causa? You have no cause to do anything; or, there is no cause for, etc., non est (or nihil est) quod, or quare, or cur; or nihil est causae, cur; causa non est, cur (verb in subjunctive in all these expressions). What cause have you for ...? quid est causae cur...? or, quid est, cur ...? to give anybody cause for suspicion, suspicionem movere: to be the cause of anything, locum dare or facere alicui rei; i. e., to make its existence possible; e.g., fabulae, roendacio, miraculo: auctorem esse alicujus rei; alicujus rei ordiendae principem esse: occasionem dare or praebere alicujus rei [Vid. CAUSE, v.] .

Cause (in law), actio: lis: causa: res [SYN. in ACTION]. A capital cause, causa capitalis: lis capitalis. A criminal cause, causa publica. To gain a cause, litem or causam obtinere: judicium vincere: also only vincere: to lose a cause, litem amittere; causam or litem perdere: causa or lite cadere; formula cadere or excidere: to plead a cause, causam agere or tractare: agere apud judices (general term): causam or litem orare (to make a speech upon it): to plead his own cause, litem suam facere: to undertake a cause, causam, or litem suscipere, or recipere (the former not to refuse when requested; the latter to do it voluntarily): the cause is still undecided, nondum dijudicata lis est (after Hor., Od., 3, 5. 54): adhuc sub judice lis est (Hor., A.P., 78): not to go on with a cause, causam deponere, ab causa recedere; causam susceptam affligere (of the person conducting it).

Party, side, Vid: PARTY.

auctorem esse alicujus rei (to be its author; e.g., legis, belli, alicujus reditus): creare (to produce or create: errorem, bellum): movere (excite, stir up; risum, bellum, suspicionem): ansam dare or praebere alicujus rei or ad aliquid faciendum (to give a handle for; e.g., reprehensionis or ad reprehendendum): alicujus rei ordiendae principem esse: causam alicujus rei inferre (to cause it; give the first occasion of it; e.g., jurgii): occasionem dare or praebere alicujus rei (to supply the opportunity: e.g., sui opprimendi). To cause anybody to do anything, adducere aliquem ad aliquid (lead him to it): commovere aliquem ad aliquid (move him to it): incitare or concitare aliquem ad aliquid (excite him to it): auctorem esse, ut, etc.; aliquem impellere ut, etc. (urge or drive him to it).

Excite: be the exciting cause of: excitare: concitare (any action or passion; laughter; hatred; envy; compassion; a war): excire: conciere or concire (in classical prose = “to raise in the mind a passionate impulse to do something;” seldum to produce a passion or evil; e.g., iram conciere, seditionem conciere: terrorem excitare): movere: commovere (to agitate the mind: then, also, to produce an emotion, evil, etc., misericordiam, bellum, seditionem movere or commovere: risum, suspicionem movere): conflare (blow into a flame; kindle: alicui invidiam; bellum): to cause perspiration by exercise, sudorem exercitatione movere: a dispute, controversiam inferre: a quarrel, causam jurgii inferre: admiration, admirationem efficere: a desire, cupiditatem afferre (alicui alicujus rei): pain, dolorem movere, commovere, facere, efficere: to cause anybody lasting pain, dolorem alicui inurere: lusts, libidines excitare: sleep, alicui somnum afferre, parere, conciliaro. [For other combinations, Vid: the substantives with which CAUSE is joined.]