casa

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish casa.

Noun

casa (plural casas)

  1. (slang) house
    • 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.
    • 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
      Chuffy: WHAT? No, no, no, no, no. My casa is your casa, what?
    Get out of my casa!

Anagrams


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 Occitan [Term?], from Latin casa.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, 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

A cabin and a house (casa), northern Galicia
Casa palloza or palloza ("thatched house"), eastern Galicia
Casa torre ("tower house"), Vigo, southern Galicia
ESTAS CASAS MANDIU FAZER VASCO DA COSTA, ERA DE MCCCLXXVII ("These houses were ordered by Vasco da Costa, era 1377 (= 1339 CE))

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese casa, from Latin casa.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): [ˈkas̺ɐ]

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

  1. house
    1. structure serving as an abode of human beings
    2. farmhouse
    3. noble family; lineage
      Synonym: dinastía
    4. company, firm
  2. home (one’s own dwelling place)
    Synonyms: fogar, lar
  3. (board games) a cell which may be occupied by a piece (such as a square in a chessboard)

Derived terms

  • casa baixa
  • casa cuberta
  • casa do concello
  • Casa de Naia
  • Casa do Monte
  • Casa do Vento
  • casa grande
  • Casa Grande
  • casa indiana
  • Casa Lousada
  • Casa Nova
  • casa terrea
  • casa torre
  • Casabranca
  • Casagrande
  • Casanova
  • Casas Baratas
  • Casas do Monte
  • Casas Novas
  • Casas Vellas
  • Casasoa
  • Casasoá
  • Casavella
  • caseiro
  • caseño
  • caseta

References

  • casa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • casa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • casa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • casa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • casa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.sa/

Noun

casa (plural casas)

  1. house
  2. home

Irish

Pronunciation

Adjective

casa

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

Verb

casa

  1. inflection of cas:
    1. present subjunctive analytic
    2. (obsolete) second-person singular present indicative

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, Sardinia) IPA(key): /ˈkaː.za/
  • (Central and Southern Italy, Standard Italian) IPA(key): /ˈkaː.sa/
  • (file)

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 (in the sense of the preceding words, not "human race")
  6. company, firm

Synonyms

Derived terms

Further reading


Latin

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Noun

casa f (genitive casae); first declension

  1. hut, cottage
  2. (Medieval Latin, Vulgar Latin) dwelling, residence, house
Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative casa casae
Genitive casae casārum
Dative casae casīs
Accusative casam casās
Ablative casā casīs
Vocative casa casae
Derived terms
  • casellula
Descendants

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

References

  • casa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • casa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • casa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • casa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • casa in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sasa/

Noun

casa

  1. inflection of cas:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative and accusative dual

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [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 nuestro sennor a ieremias, ve a casa del orcero e yo fablaré contigo.
      [] 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/
    • (file)
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈka.za/, /ˈka.zɐ/
  • Hyphenation: ca‧sa
  • Rhymes: -aza

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

  1. house
    1. structure serving as an abode of human beings
      Aquela casa é grande.That house is big.
    2. building or institution serving as something other than residence, such as a shop
      Casa de carnes.Butcher’s shop.
    3. noble family
      Synonym: dinastia
      Casa de BragançaHouse of Braganza
  2. home (one’s own dwelling place)
    Synonym: lar
    Estou em casa.I'm at home.
  3. (board games) a cell which may be occupied by a piece (such as a square in a chessboard)
  4. 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.

Usage notes

In certain phrases, the definite article is omitted when referring to one's own home.

  • Examples: em casa (instead of na casa), para casa (instead of para a casa)

Derived terms

  • 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 quotations of use of this term, see Citations:casar.

Descendants


Romanian

Noun

casa f

  1. definite nominative and accusative singular 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

casa

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.

See also

Further reading


Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian cassa

Noun

casa f (plural case)

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

See also

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