carcassa
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Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian carcassa.
Noun[edit]
carcassa f (plural carcasses)
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Likely from carcasso, obsolete variant of turcasso (“quiver”). Compare the now obsolete “bomb” sense.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
carcassa f (plural carcasse)
- carcass
- (by extension) hulk, shell
- (by extension) framework, skeleton
- (obsolete) a kind of bomb made of an iron framing covered with cloth, filled with flammable materials
- Hypernym: bomba
Further reading[edit]
- carcassa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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- Catalan terms borrowed from Italian
- Catalan terms derived from Italian
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
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- Italian 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/assa
- Rhymes:Italian/assa/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
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- Italian terms with obsolete senses