adverb
incassum
incassum (not comparable)
Meaning
- not comparablein vain
Non haec incassum divisque absentibus acta.
These events were not carried out in vain, with an absence of the gods.c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Thebais 1.471 (as edited by D. E. Hill in 1983)
incassum, v. cassus, II.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
in-cassum or in cassum adv.
see cassus, in vain, to no purpose, uselessly: furere, V.: tot pati labores, V.: missae preces, L.: studio gestire lavandi, wantonly, V.
Origins
From in (“in”) + cassum (“hollow, empty”), accusative of cassus.