casse

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• cases

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑs/

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• Rhymes: -ɑs

Etymology 1

From casser.

Etymology 2

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

Anagrams

• cases, cessa

Etymology 1

See etymology on the main entry.

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Anagrams

• cessa, scesa

Adjective

casse

1. vocative masculine singular of cassus

References

• casse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• casse in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Etymology

From Old Occitan, 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

• IPA^(key): [ˈkase]

Noun

casse m (plural casses)

1. oak

Alternative forms

• caisse
• casse
• case
• quase
• chasse

Etymology

Found in Old Northern French as a variant of chasse. From Latin capsa.

Noun

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

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

References

• casse on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (caisse, supplement)

Verb

casse

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of cassar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of cassar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of cassar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of cassar