casa

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish casa.

Noun

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

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin casa.

Noun

casa f (plural cases)

  1. house

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin casa.

Noun

casa f (plural cases)

  1. house

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈka.zə/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈka.za/
  • Rhymes: -aza

Noun

casa f (plural cases)

  1. house

Derived terms

Verb

casa

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of casar
  2. second-person singular imperative form of casar

French

Verb

casa

  1. third-person singular past historic of caser

Galician

Etymology

From Latin casa.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): [ˈkas̺ɐ]

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

  1. house

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.sa/

Noun

casa (plural casas)

  1. house
  2. home

Irish

Pronunciation

Adjective

casa

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

Verb

casa

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

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.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin casa (“house”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

Further reading

Latin

Etymology 1

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.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

casa f (genitive casae); first declension

  1. hut, cottage, house
Inflection

First declension.

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

Etymology 2

Inflected form of cāsus (“fallen”).

Pronunciation

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

References

  • casa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • casa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • casa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • casa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • casa in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sasa/

Noun

casa

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

Occitan

Etymology

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

Noun

casa f (plural cases)

  1. house

Old Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈka.za]

Noun

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

Portuguese

casa

Alternative forms

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)(file)
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈka.za/, /ˈka.zɐ/
  • Hyphenation: ca‧sa
  • Rhymes: -aza

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.
    Aquela casa é grande. ― That house is big.
  2. home (one’s own dwelling place)
    Synonym: lar
    Estou em casa. ― I'm at home.
  3. (in compounds) shop (establishment that sells goods or service)
    Synonym: loja
    Casa de carnes. ― Butcher’s shop.
  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’ place.
  6. house (noble family)

Derived terms

  • 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

Quotations

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

Descendants

Romanian

Noun

casa f

  1. definite singular nominative and accusative form of casă.

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin casa.

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

  1. (Sursilvan) house

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin casa

Noun

casa f (plural casi)

  1. house

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin casa (“cottage”).

Pronunciation

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

  1. house

Derived terms

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

Further reading

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian cassa

Noun

casa f (plural case)

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

See also

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