casque

See also: casqué

English

A 4th-century Roman ornamental casque

Etymology

Borrowed from French casque. Doublet of casco and cask.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɑːsk/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kæsk/

Noun

casque (plural casques)

1. A helmet.
   • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section I:

     He beheld his child dashed to pieces, and almost buried under an enormous helmet, an hundred times more large than any casque ever made for human being, and shaded with a proportionable quantity of black feathers.

2. A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as the hornbill or cassowary.
   • 2015, James Eaton et al., “Trade-driven extinctions and near-extinctions of avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia”, in Forktail, page 2, column 2:

     Helmeted Hornbill, Rhinoplax vigil (CR): Restricted to the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, this is the only hornbill species whose casque is solid keratin and therefore carvable.

Translations

visorless helmet

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盔 (zh) (kuī)

• Galician: casco (gl) m
• German: Helm (de) m, Helm ohne Visier m
• Japanese: カスク
• Korean: 투구 (ko) (tugu)
• Russian: откры́тый (ru) (otkrýtyj) шлем (ru) m (šlem)

hard structure on the head of some birds, such as the hornbill or cassowary

Anagrams

• sacque

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kask/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: casques

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish casco.

Noun

casque m (plural casques)

1. helmet
2. hard hat
3. headphones
4. (zoology) casque

Derived terms

• casque bleu

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: ка́ска (káska)
• → English: casque
• → Romanian: cască
• → Russian: ка́ска (káska)
• → Turkish: kask
• → Ukrainian: ка́ска (káska)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

casque

1. inflection of casquer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “casque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• casque on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Anagrams

• caques

Spanish

Verb

casque

1. inflection of cascar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative