different between caique vs casque

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???i?k/, /ka??i?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French caïque, from Italian caicco, from Ottoman Turkish ????? (kay?k), from Proto-Turkic *K(i)aj-guk (“boat, oar”). Cognate with modern Turkish kay?k.

Alternative forms

• caïc, caicco, caieque, caïque, kaik, kaiki, kajik, kayik

Noun

caique (plural caiques)

1. (nautical) A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling.

Derived terms

• caïquejee

Translations

Etymology 2

From Spanish caíque or Portuguese caíque.

Noun

caique (plural caiques)

1. Any of four (previously two) species of parrot in the genus Pionites.

See also

• Caique (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French casque.

Noun

casque (plural casques)

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

Translations

Anagrams

• sacque

French

Etymology

From Spanish casco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kask/
• Homophone: casques

Noun

casque m (plural casques)

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

Derived terms

• casque bleu

Verb

casque

1. first-person singular present indicative of casquer
2. third-person singular present indicative of casquer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of casquer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of casquer
5. second-person singular imperative of casquer

Further reading

• “casque” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• casque on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Anagrams

• caques

Spanish

Verb

casque

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of cascar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of cascar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of cascar.