casse

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See also: cassé and câsse

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French casse (literally breakage), from casser (to break).[1]

Noun[edit]

casse (uncountable)

  1. A fault in wine, caused by an enzyme, making it turn from red to brown, or white to yellow, on exposure to air.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ casse”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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French[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From casser.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kas/, /kɑs/ (/ɑ/ in dialects with this phoneme)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑs

Verb[edit]

casse

  1. inflection of casser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative
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Noun[edit]

casse m (plural casses)

  1. (slang) burglary, break-in
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Noun[edit]

casse f (plural casses)

  1. breakage (act of breaking)
  2. breaker's yard, wreck yard

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from Italian cassa, from Latin capsa. Doublet of châsse and caisse.

Noun[edit]

casse f (plural casses)

  1. (typography, informatics) case
    sensible à la cassecase-sensitive

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Italian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective[edit]

casse

  1. feminine plural of casso

Participle[edit]

casse f pl

  1. feminine plural of casso

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun[edit]

casse f pl

  1. plural of cassa

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Latin[edit]

Adjective[edit]

casse

  1. vocative masculine singular of cassus

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Occitan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *cassanus (attested in Medieval Latin as casnus), probably from Gaulish cassanos. Compare French chêne (Old French chesne, chasne), Franco-Provençal châno. See also Aragonese caixico, Spanish quejigo.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

casse m (plural casses)

  1. oak

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Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Northern variant of central Old French chasse, from Latin capsa.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

casse oblique singularf (oblique plural casses, nominative singular casse, nominative plural casses)

  1. (Old Northern French) case (box; container, etc.)

Descendants[edit]

  • Norman: câsse
  • Middle English: cas

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Portuguese[edit]

Verb[edit]

casse

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