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Casa

Casa

See also: casa, casá, casà, casã, casă, časa, and čaša

English

Proper noun

Casa

  1. A town in Arkansas.

casa

casa

See also: Casa, casá, casà, casã, casă, cåsa, časa, and čaša

English

Noun

casa (plural casas)

  1. (slang) house
    Get out of my casa!
    • Francis Bret Harte
      I saw that Enriquez had made no attempt to modernize the old casa, and that even the garden was left in its lawless native luxuriance.

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin casa.

Noun

casa f (plural cases)

  1. house

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin casa.

Noun

casa f (plural cases)

  1. house

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Provençal [Term?], from Latin casa.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈka.zə/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /ˈka.zə/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈka.za/
  • Rhymes: -aza

Noun

casa f (plural cases)

  1. house

Derived terms

Verb

casa

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of casar
  2. second-person singular imperative form of casar

French

Verb

casa

  1. third-person singular past historic of caser

Galician

Etymology

From Latin casa.

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

  1. house

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.sa/

Noun

casa (plural casas)

  1. house
  2. home

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Munster, Aran) IPA(key): /ˈkɑsˠə/
  • (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkasˠə/

Adjective

casa

  1. nominative and vocative and dative and strong genitive plural of cas

Verb

casa

  1. present subjunctive analytic of cas

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
casa chasa gcasa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin casa (house).

Pronunciation

  • (Northern Italy) IPA(key): /ˈka.za/
  • (Central and Southern Italy, standard) IPA(key): /ˈka.sa/

Noun

casa f (plural case)

  1. house
  2. home
  3. shop
  4. (board games) square
  5. Family, dynasty, descent, extraction, stock, lineage, birth, origin, race (not human “race”, but meaning the preceding words).
  6. Company, firm.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

References


    Latin

    Etymology 1

    Possibly from either Proto-Indo-European *kat- (to link or weave together; chain, net) (compare Latin catena (chain)), or Proto-Indo-European *ket- (hut, shed) (compare Old English heaþor (restraint, confinement, enclosure, prison), Avestan [script needed] (kata, chamber), Mazanderani کَت (kat, wall)), likely through borrowing from another Indo-European language rather than inheritance.[1]

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    casa f (genitive casae); first declension

    1. hut, cottage, house.
    2. vocative singular of casa

    casā f

    1. ablative singular of casa
    Inflection

    First declension.

    Case Singular Plural
    nominative casa casae
    genitive casae casārum
    dative casae casīs
    accusative casam casās
    ablative casā casīs
    vocative casa casae
    Descendants

    References

    1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

    Etymology 2

    Inflected form of cāsus (fallen).

    Pronunciation

    Participle

    cāsa

    1. nominative feminine singular of cāsus
    2. nominative neuter plural of cāsus
    3. accusative neuter plural of cāsus
    4. vocative feminine singular of cāsus
    5. vocative neuter plural of cāsus

    cāsā

    1. ablative feminine singular of cāsus

    Lower Sorbian

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [ˈt͡sasa]

    Noun

    casa

    1. genitive singular of cas
    2. nominative dual of cas
    3. accusative dual of cas

    Occitan

    Etymology

    From Old Provençal [Term?], from Latin casa.

    Noun

    casa f (plural cases)

    1. house

    Old Spanish

    Etymology

    From Latin casam, accusative of casa (cottage).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [ˈka.za]

    Noun

    casa f (plural casas)

    1. house
      • c. 1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 80r. col. 1.
        […] dixo nŕo ſénnor a ieremias ue a caſa del orcero e ẏ fablare cótigo.
        […] Our Lord said to Jeremiah, go to the potter's house, and I will speak to you there.

    Descendants


    Portuguese

    casa

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    From Old Portuguese casa, from Latin casa (cottage), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (to link or weave together; chain, net; hut, shed).

    Pronunciation

    • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈka.zɐ/
    • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈka.za/, /ˈka.zɐ/
    • Hyphenation: ca‧sa
    • Rhymes: -aza

    Noun

    casa f (plural casas)

    1. house (structure serving as an abode of human beings)
      • 2005, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Rocco, page 135:
        Ele agora tem uma casa nas montanhas, foi Dumbledore que arranjou, uma bela caverna.
        He now has a house in the mountains, Dumbledore is who provided it, a beautiful cave.
      Aquela casa é grande. ― That house is big.
    2. home (one’s own dwelling place)
      Estou em casa. ― I'm at home.
    3. (in compounds) shop (establishment that sells goods or service)
      Casa de carnes. ― Butcher’s shop.
    4. (board games) a cell which may be occupied by a piece (such as a square in a chessboard)
    5. a digit position
      No número 12345, o algarismo 3 ocupa a casa das centenas.
      In the number 12345, the digit 3 is in the hundreds’ place.
    6. house (noble family)

    Quotations

    For usage examples of this term, see Citations:casa.

    Synonyms

    Derived terms

    • em casa de ferreiro, espeto de pau — At a blacksmith’s house, wooden skewer.
    • ô de casa
    • quem casa quer casa — Those who marry want a house.
    • santa casa
    • sentir-se em casa
    • ser de casa

    Verb

    casa

    1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present indicative of casar
    2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of casar

    Quotations

    For usage examples of this term, see Citations:casar.

    Descendants

    • Kabuverdianu: kasa

    Romanian

    Noun

    casa f

    1. definite singular nominative and accusative form of casă.

    Romansch

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    From Latin casa.

    Noun

    casa f (plural casas)

    1. (Sursilvan) house

    Sicilian

    Etymology

    From Latin casa

    Noun

    casa f (plural casi)

    1. house

    Spanish

    Etymology

    From Latin casa (cottage).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    casa f (plural casas)

    1. house

    Derived terms

    Verb

    casa

    1. Informal second-person singular () affirmative imperative form of casar.
    2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of casar.
    3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of casar.

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    Venetian

    Etymology

    Compare Italian cassa

    Noun

    casa f (plural case)

    1. case
    2. cash desk
    3. fund
    4. coffin

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