casa

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See also casă, cåsa, and čaša

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowing from Spanish

Noun[edit]

casa (plural casas)

  1. (informal, slang) house
    Get out of my casa!

See also[edit]

Asturian[edit]

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Noun[edit]

casa f (plural cases)

  1. house

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin casa.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

casa f (plural cases)

  1. house

Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

casa

  1. Third-person singular present indicative form of casar.
  2. Second-person singular imperative form of casar.

French[edit]

Verb[edit]

casa

  1. third-person singular past historic of caser

Galician[edit]

Noun[edit]

casa f (plural casas)

  1. house

Interlingua[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: /ˈka.sa/

Noun[edit]

casa (plural casas)

  1. house
  2. home

Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

casa

  1. Plural form of cas

Verb[edit]

casa

  1. present subjunctive analytic of cas

Usage notes[edit]

Used with a noun or pronoun as the subject.

Mutation[edit]

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[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin casa (“house”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: /ˈkasa/, /ˈkaza/
  • audio
    		(file)

Noun[edit]

casa f (plural case)

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

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Latin[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net; hut, shed”); related to Latin catena (“chain”), Latin castrum (“area surrounded by walls, fortress, fort”), Old English heaþor (“restraint, confinement, enclosure, prison”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

casa (genitive casae); f, first declension

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

casā f

  1. ablative singular of casa
Inflection[edit]
Number Singular Plural
nominative casa casae
genitive casae casārum
dative casae casīs
accusative casam casās
ablative casā casīs
vocative casa casae
Descendants[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Inflected form of cāsus (“fallen”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Participle[edit]

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

Portuguese[edit]

casa

Etymology[edit]

From Old Portuguese casa, from Latin casa (“cottage”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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.
  2. home (one’s own dwelling place)
  3. (in compounds) shop (establishment that sells goods or service)
    Casa de carnes.
    Butcher’s shop (literally: House of meats).
  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’ position.

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

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

Romanian[edit]

Noun[edit]

casa f (singular, nominative/accusative, definite form of casă)

  1. the house

Romansch[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin casa.

Noun[edit]

casa f (plural casas)

  1. (Sursilvan) house

Sicilian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin casa

Noun[edit]

casa f (plural casi)

  1. A house.

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin casa (“cottage”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: /ˈkasa/
  • Bolivian pronunciation
    		(file)
  • Homophone: caza (non-Castilian dialects)

Noun[edit]

casa f (plural casas)

  1. house

Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

casa (infinitive casar)

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) 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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare Italian cassa

Noun[edit]

casa f (plural case)

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

See also[edit]

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