casa

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

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish casa.

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

Aragonese[edit]

Aragonese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia an

Etymology[edit]

From Latin casa.

Noun[edit]

casa f (plural cases)

  1. house

Asturian[edit]

Asturian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ast

Etymology[edit]

From Latin casa.

Noun[edit]

casa f (plural cases)

  1. house

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin casa.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

casa f (plural cases)

  1. house

Derived terms[edit]

Related 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]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin casa.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA(key): [ˈkas̺ɐ]

Noun[edit]

casa f (plural casas)

  1. house

Interlingua[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

casa (plural casas)

  1. house
  2. home

Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

casa

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

Verb[edit]

casa

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

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]

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

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Terms derived from casa

Related terms[edit]

Terms related to casa

Further reading[edit]

Latin[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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[edit]

Noun[edit]

casa f (genitive casae); first declension

  1. hut, cottage, house
Inflection[edit]

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative casa casae
genitive casae casārum
dative casae casīs
accusative casam casās
ablative casā casīs
vocative casa casae
Descendants[edit]
descendants of Latin casa

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

References[edit]

  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[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

casa

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

Occitan[edit]

Occitan Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia oc

Etymology[edit]

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin casa.

Noun[edit]

casa f (plural cases)

  1. house

Old Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin casam, accusative of casa (“cottage”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

Portuguese[edit]

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt
casa

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Portuguese casa, from Latin casa (“cottage”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net; hut, shed”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

casa f (plural casas)

  1. house
    1. 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.
        He now has a house in the mountains.
      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 Bragança ― House 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[edit]

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[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

Quotations[edit]

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

Descendants[edit]

Romanian[edit]

Noun[edit]

casa f

  1. definite singular nominative and accusative form of casă.

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. house

Spanish[edit]

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia es
casa

Etymology[edit]

From Latin casa (“cottage”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

casa f (plural casas)

  1. house

Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

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[edit]

Further reading[edit]

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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