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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--casus belli This week's theme: words about war. casus belli (KAY-suhs BEL-i, rhymes with eye, BEL-ee) noun plural casus belli An action or event that causes or is used to justify starting a war. [From New Latin casus belli, from Latin casus (occasion), belli, genitive of bellum (war).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Education, both secondary and tertiary, remains a battleground, though the casus belli seems to be more about funding than egalitarianism." Stan Heyl; Class War - The Struggle Goes On; The Independent (London, UK); May 19, 2001. X-Bonus What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? -Theodore Roethke, poet (1908-1963)

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