casso

• IPA^(key): /ˈkas.so/, [ˈkäs̪s̪o̞]
• X-SAMPA: ["kasso]
• Rhymes: -asso
• Stress: càsso
• Hyphenation: cas‧so

From Latin cassus (“hollow”, “empty”).

casso (feminine singular cassa, masculine plural cassi, feminine plural casse)

1. (obsolete) useless, fruitless
   • 1516, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso [Raging Roland]‎, Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, Canto XXI, page 96:

     Non fu gia l'altro colpo uano, e caſſo; ¶ roppe lo ſcudo: e ſi la ſpalla preſe ¶ che la forò da l'uno a l'altro lato […]

     The other blow was not vain and fruitless: ¶ it broke the shield, and hit the shoulder so ¶ that it pierced through it […]

2. (obsolete) deprived, devoid

• (useless): futile, inutile, vano
• (deprived): privo, sfornito

• (useless): utile
• (deprived): dotato, fornito

Perfect passive participle form of cassare (“to erase, take out”), from Vulgar Latin *cassare (“to nullify, void”), derived from Latin cassus.

casso m (feminine singular cassa, masculine plural cassi, feminine plural casse)

1. (obsolete) past participle of cassare
   1. erased, gone, destroyed
   2. (figuratively) fired

• (erased): cancellato, distrutto, perduto
• (fired): licenziato

From Latin capsus (“the body of a carriage”) (cfr. capsa (“box”)).

casso m (plural cassi)

1. (obsolete) The concave area located below the chest.
2. (obsolete, by extension) thorax

• (thorax): torace

See the etymology of the main entry.

casso

1. first-person singular present indicative of cassare

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.soː/

From cadō (“fall”) +‎ -tō (verb-forming suffix).

cassō (present infinitive cassāre, perfect active cassāvī); first conjugation, no passive

1. I totter, I begin to fall

• cassābundus

See the etymology of the main entry.

cassō

1. dative masculine singular of cassus
2. dative neuter singular of cassus
3. ablative masculine singular of cassus
4. ablative neuter plural of cassus

• casso in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• casso in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• casso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• “cassō” on page 308/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

casso

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of cassar