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cas

cas

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cas"

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cāsus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kas/
  • Rhymes: -as

Noun

cas m (plural casos)

  1. case

Related terms

  • per si de cas
  • per si un cas

French

Etymology

From Old French cas, borrowed from Latin cāsus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka/

Noun

cas m (plural cas)

  1. case, situation
  2. (medicine) case
  3. (law) case
    cas clinique ― clinical case
  4. (grammar) case

Derived terms

Anagrams


Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cass (curly, curly-haired).

Pronunciation

  • (Munster, Aran) IPA(key): /kɑsˠ/
  • (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA(key): /kasˠ/

Adjective

cas (genitive singular masculine cais, genitive singular feminine caise, plural casa, comparative caise)

  1. winding
  2. curly
  3. devious
  4. complicated

Declension

Verb

cas (present analytic casann, future analytic casfaidh, verbal noun casadh, past participle casta)

  1. to turn
  2. to wind
  3. (idiomatic) to sing
    Tá sé ag casadh amhráin.
    He’s singing a song.

Conjugation

  • Alternative verbal noun: castáil (Cois Fharraige)

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • cas ar, cas do, cas le (to meet, meet with)
  • caschlár (turntable)
  • castóir (winder, turner; reproacher, reviler)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cas chas gcas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Lojban

Rafsi

cas

  1. rafsi of ckasu.

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *časъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sas/

Noun

cas m

  1. time (inevitable passing of events)

Declension


Middle English

Noun

cas (plural cass)

  1. case (event, happening)

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʰas/

Noun

cas f (genitive singular coise, plural casan)

  1. leg
  2. foot
  3. handle

Usage notes

  • The dative form is cois:
    Tha e ochd mìle air cois.
    It is eight miles on foot.

Derived terms

Adjective

cas (comparative caise)

  1. steep

Spanish

Noun

cas m (plural cases)

  1. The fruit of a very tart species of guava
  2. The tree that bears those fruits, Psidium friedrichsthalianum.

Synonyms

  • guyaba de cas
  • guayaba de Costa Rica
  • guayaba agria

Welsh

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑːs/

Verb

cas

  1. third-person singular preterite of cael

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cas gas nghas chas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.