casa

See also: casă, cåsa, and čaša

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Spanish

Noun

casa (plural casas)

1. (informal, slang) house

   Get out of my casa!

See also

• mi casa es su casa
• mi casa es tu casa

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Asturian

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Noun

casa f (plural cases)

1. house

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin casa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkazə/
• Rhymes: -azə

Noun

casa f (plural cases)

1. house

Derived terms

• casolà

Verb

casa

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

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French

Verb

casa

1. third-person singular past historic of caser

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Galician

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

1. house

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.sa/

Noun

casa (plural casas)

1. house
2. home

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Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): [ˈkɑsˠə]
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): [ˈkasˠə]

Adjective

casa

1. nominative / vocative / dative plural of cas
2. strong genitive plural of cas

Verb

casa

1. present subjunctive analytic of cas

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.

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Italian

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Etymology

From Latin casa (“house”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasa/, /ˈkaza/

• audio

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Noun

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

• abitazione
• dimora

Derived terms

• casa barca
• Casa Bianca
• casa colonica
• casa costruttrice
• casa da gioco
• casa d'appuntamenti
• casa dello studente
• casa di bambole
• casa di correzione
• casa di cura
• casa di moda
• casa di pena
• casa di piacere
• casa di riposo
• casa di tolleranza
• casa discografica
• casa, dolce casa (home sweet home)
• casa editrice
• casa famiglia
• casa farmaceutica
• casa generalizia
• casa madre
• casa popolare
• casa reale
• casina
• fatto in casa
• padrona di casa
• vino della casa

Related terms

• casale
• casalinga
• casalingo
• casamatta
• casamento
• casareccio
• casata
• casato
• caseggiato
• casino
• casolare
• casotto
• rincasare

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Latin

Etymology 1

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”), Mazanderani کَت (kat, “wall”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.sa/

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

casa f (genitive casae); first declension

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

casā f

1. ablative singular of casa

Inflection

First declension.

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	casa	casae
genitive	casae	casārum
dative	casae	casīs
accusative	casam	casās
ablative	casā	casīs
vocative	casa	casae

Descendants

descendants of Latin casa

Aragonese: casa Aromanian: casã Asturian: casa Catalan: casa Dalmatian: cuosa Emilian: chèṡa, cà Friulian: čhase, cjase Interlingua: casa Istriot: casa Istro-Romanian: cåsĕ Italian: casa, ca’ Ladin: cèsa Ligurian: câza Lombard: cà Mirandese: casa Occitan: casa Old French: chiese, chese French: chez English: chez Old Portuguese: casa Fala: casa Galician: casa Portuguese: casa Indo-Portuguese: casa Karipúna Creole French: kaz Macanese: casa Malaccan Creole Portuguese: kaza Upper Guinea Crioulo: kasa, kaza Old Spanish: casa Spanish: casa English: casa Papiamentu: kas Piemontese: ca Romagnol: ca Romanian: casă Romansch: chasa Sardinian: càsa Sicilian: casa Venetian: caxa, ca’

Etymology 2

Inflected form of cāsus (“fallen”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.sa/

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

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtsasa]

Noun

casa m

1. genitive singular of cas
2. nominative dual of cas
3. accusative dual of cas

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Portuguese

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casa

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/

  • Audio (PT)

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• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.za/, /ˈka.zɐ/
• Hyphenation: ca‧sa

Noun

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.

6. house (noble family)

Synonyms

• (home): lar
• (shop): loja

Derived terms

• casinha, casebre, casita, casucha, casinhola, casinholo, casinhota, casinhoto (diminutives)
• casão, casona, casarão, casaréu (augmentatives)

casa civil casa da mãe joana casa de banho casa de câmara e cadeia casa de campo casa de cômodos

casa de correção casa de despejo casa de orates casa noturna casa onde não há pão, todos ralham e ninguém tem razão — In a house without bread, everyone argues and no one is right. casa roubada, trancas à porta — Robbed house, locked doors.

em casa de ferreiro, espeto de pau — At a blacksmith’s house, wooden skewer. 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

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Romanian

Noun

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

1. the house

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) chasa
• (Sutsilvan) tgea, tgeasa
• (Surmiran) tgesa, tga
• (Puter) chesa

Etymology

From Latin casa.

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

1. (Sursilvan) house

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Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin casa

Noun

casa f (plural casi)

1. A house.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin casa (“cottage”).

Pronunciation

• (distinción) IPA^(key): /ˈkasa/
• (seseo) IPA^(key): /ˈkasa/

• Audio (Bolivia)

  (file)

• (ceceo) IPA^(key): /ˈkaθa/
• Homophone: caza (seseo and ceceo dialects)

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

1. house

Derived terms

• (diminutives): casilla, casita
• (augmentatives): casona, casota
• (pejoratives): casucha
• casa de bolsa
• casa de cambio
• casa de citas
• casa de empeño
• casa mía, casa mía, por pequeña que tú seas, me pareces una abadía
• casar
• casino
• casería
• caserío
• casero
• caseta
• el casado casa quiere
• en casa de herrero, cuchara de palo
• mi casa es su casa, mi casa es tu casa

Verb

casa

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.

See also

• hogar
• lar

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Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian cassa

Noun

casa f (plural case)

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

See also

• caxa