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The task requests the word-by-word translation of the Latin phrase casus belli.
First, identify the components: casus means 'case' or 'occasion' and belli is the genitive form of bellum, meaning 'war' or 'warfare'.
Second, combine them to form a natural English rendering: 'case for war' or, more literally, 'the case for war' depending on usage.
Third, note the prompt asks to go to etymonline.com and look up the term; the provided answer is indeed the standard translation of each word in order and their combined sense.
Fourth, there are no alternative answer options listed to evaluate for correctness or to compare possible distractors. As a result, we cannot analyze other choices, but we can confirm that the stated translation 'case for war' accurately reflects the word-by-word meaning of casus belli.
Fifth, the translation aligns with common scholarly usage where casus belli denotes a justification or pretext for going to war, derived from the literal words casus (case/occasion) and belli (of war).

CLA 030 001 WQ 2025 Homework 17: Latin Phrases, p. 123

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