fall Copy link Outline I. Lit.1. cāsus, ūs2. lapsus, ūs (by slipping)3. ruīna (with the notion of violence, as ruo)II. Inclination of ground relatively to waterIII. Ruin1. ruīna2. cāsus3. excĭdium (destruction)IV. WaterfallV. A lowering, diminution • fall, falling (subs.): I. Lit.: 1. cāsus, ūs: a f. of snow, nivis c., Liv.: the f. of a drop, stillicidi c., Lucr.: lofty towers descend with a heavier f., celsae graviore c. decidunt turres, Hor. 2. lapsus, ūs (by slipping): to hold oneself up from falling, se a lapsu sustinere, Liv. 3. ruīna (with the notion of violence, as ruo): a f. of hail, r. grandinis, Lucr.: the f. of beasts of burden, jumentorum r., Liv.: the sudden f. of a tower, turris repentina r., Caes. Phr.: to have a (heavy) f., (graviter) cadere, concidere, Virg.: Ov.: the f. of the voice, vocis submissio, Cic.: without any f. (of rain), sine ullis coelestibus aquis, Liv. 5, 13. II. Inclination of ground relatively to water: lībrāmentum: a f. of one quarter of an inch in 100 feet, l. aquae in centenos pedes sicilici. Plin. 31, 6, 31: Vitr. III. Ruin: 1. ruīna: to be crushed in the general f. of one's country, communi r. patriae opprimi, Liv.: driven into exile by the f. of his father-in-law, r. soceri in exilium pulsus, Tac. 2. cāsus: my horrible, grievous, and sudden f., ille meus c. horribilis, gravis, repentinus, Cic. 3. excĭdium (destruction): the f. of Carthage, Carthaginis excidia, Liv. IV. Waterfall: dējectus, ūs (with or without aquae or fluminis): the f. of the Peneus, Penei d., Ov.: Sen.: v. waterfall. V. A lowering, diminution: dēmĭnūtio: a f. in the revenues, d. vectigalium, Cic.