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English

Etymology

From Middle English cane, canne, from Old French cane (“sugar cane”), from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na). Related to channel and canal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k?e?n]
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Homophone: Cain

Noun

cane (countable and uncountable, plural canes)

1. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
   1. (uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae

      Synonyms: stem, stalk, (of a tree) trunk

   2. (uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed

      Synonym: reed

   3. (uncountable) Sugar cane

      Synonym: molasses cane

   4. (US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar
2. The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
   1. (countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.

      Synonyms: rod, switch
   2. (with "the") Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.

      Synonyms: a caning, six of the best, whipping, cuts

   3. A lance or dart made of cane
      • 1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada

        Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted cane.

3. a rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane
   1. (countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick

      Synonyms: staff, walking stick

   2. (countable, glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking
   3. (countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path

      Synonyms: blind man's cane, white cane

4. (uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like
5. A local European measure of length; the canna.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cane (third-person singular simple present canes, present participle caning, simple past and past participle caned)

1. to strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
2. (Britain, New Zealand, slang) to destroy; to comprehensively defeat

3. (Britain, New Zealand, slang) to do something well, in a competent fashion
4. (Britain, slang, intransitive) to produce extreme pain

5. (transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.

Translations

Anagrams

• -ance, Caen, Cena, Nace, acne, ance

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin canis, from Proto-Italic *k?, from Proto-Indo-European *?w?. Cognates include Italian cane and Romanian câine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan?/

Noun

cane m (plural cani, feminine cagna)

1. (Cismontane dialects) dog (Canis familiaris)

Synonyms

• (Ultramontane dialects) ghjacaru

References

• “cane, cani” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

French

Etymology

From Middle French cane (“duck, female duck; literally floater, little boat”), from Old French cane (“boat, ship; waterbird”), from Middle Low German kane (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *kan? (“boat, vessel”). See Proto-Germanic *kanô (“boat, vessel”). Cognate with Norwegian kane (“swan-shaped vessel”), Dutch kaan (“boat”), German Kahn (“boat”), Old Norse kæna (“little boat”), and possibly Old Norse kn?rr (“ship”) (whence also Late Latin canardus (“ship”), from Germanic; and Old English cnearr (“merchant ship”)). Related to French canot (“little boat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan/
• Homophone: Cannes

Noun

cane f (plural canes)

1. duck (female duck)

Related terms

• canard

Further reading

• “cane” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• Caen

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.ne/
• Hyphenation: cà?ne

Etymology 1

From the Latin canem, accusative form of canis, from Proto-Italic *k? (accusative *kwanem), from Proto-Indo-European *?w? (accusative *?wónm?). Compare Portuguese cão, Romanian câine and Aromanian cãni.

Noun

cane m (plural cani, feminine cagna)

1. dog, male dog

   Hypernym: canide

2. (firearms) hammer

Derived terms

Related terms

Adjective

cane (invariable)

1. (of cold) freezing, biting

2. (of pain) terrible, dreadful, awful

See also

• abbaiare
• bau

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

cane f

1. plural of cana

Adjective

cane

1. feminine plural of cano

Anagrams

• acne, cena

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.ne/, [?kän?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.ne/, [?k??n?]

Verb

cane

1. second-person singular present active imperative of can?

Noun

cane

1. ablative singular of canis

References

• cane in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cane in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French cane, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na).

Alternative forms

• canne, kane, kanne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?n(?)/

Noun

cane (plural canes)

1. bamboo, sugar cane, flax, or a similar simple-stemmed plant
2. the stem or stalk of such a plant, often used to write with
3. (rare) a metal implement used for surgery
4. (rare) a bodily passage or tube, such as the trachea

Derived terms

• canel

Descendants

• English: cane
• Scots: cane

References

• “c?ne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-01.

Etymology 2

From Old English canne.

Noun

cane

1. Alternative form of canne

Old French

Etymology

From Latin canna (“reed, cane”)

Noun

cane f (oblique plural canes, nominative singular cane, nominative plural canes)

1. tube

Descendants

• French: canne
• Norman: tchêne (Jersey), kyeen (Sark)
• ? Middle English: cane, canne, kane, kanne
  • English: cane
  • Scots: cane

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• cani (campidanese)

Etymology

From the Latin canem, accusative form of canis, from Proto-Italic *k? (accusative *kwanem), from Proto-Indo-European *?w? (accusative *?wónm?). Compare Italian cane, Portuguese cão, Spanish can, French chien and Romanian câine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cane/

Noun

cane m or f (plural canes)

1. dog

   Synonym: perru

Venetian

Noun

cane

1. plural of cana

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s
• Hyphenation: case

Etymology 1

Middle English cas, from Old French cas (“an event”), from Latin c?sus (“a falling, a fall; accident, event, occurrence; occasion, opportunity; noun case”), perfect passive participle of cad? (“to fall, to drop”).

Noun

case (plural cases)

1. An actual event, situation, or fact.
2. (now rare) A given condition or state.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:

     Ne wist he how to turne, nor to what place: / Was never wretched man in such a wofull cace.

   • 1726, Nathan Bailey, John Worlidge, Dictionarium Rusticum, Urbanicum & Botanicum

     Mares which are over-fat, hold with much difficulty; whereas those that are but in good case and plump, conceive with the greatest readiness and ease.

3. A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
4. (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
6. (law) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
7. (grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.

   • Now, the Subject of either an indicative or a subjunctive Clause is always assigned Nominative case, as we see from:
     (16) (a) ? I know [that they/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
     (16) (b) ? I demand [that they/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
     By contrast, the Subject of an infinitive Clause is assigned Objective case, as we see from:
     (17) ? I want [them/*they/*their to leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
     And the Subject of a gerund Clause is assigned either Objective or Genitive case: cf.
     (18) ? I don't like the idea of [them/their/*they leaving for Hawaii tomorrow]

8. (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.

9. (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.

10. (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.

Synonyms

Hyponyms

• court case
• See also Thesaurus:grammatical case

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

case (third-person singular simple present cases, present participle casing, simple past and past participle cased)

1. (obsolete) to propose hypothetical cases

See also

• Appendix:Grammatical cases

References

• case on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English cas, from Old Northern French casse, (compare Old French chasse (“box, chest, case”)), from Latin capsa (“box, bookcase”), from capi? (“to take, seize, hold”). Doublet of cash.

Noun

case (plural cases)

2. A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
3. A box, sheath, or covering generally.

4. A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
5. An enclosing frame or casing.

6. A suitcase.
7. A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
8. The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
9. (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
10. (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
11. (poker slang) Four of a kind.
12. (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
13. (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.

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14. A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
15. A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.

    Synonym: carton

Hyponyms

Translations

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN

Adjective

case (not comparable)

1. (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
   • 2006, David Apostolico, Lessons from the Professional Poker Tour (page 21)

     If he did have a bigger ace, I still had at least six outs — the case ace, two nines, and three tens. I could also have more outs if he held anything less than A-K.

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN

Verb

case (third-person singular simple present cases, present participle casing, simple past and past participle cased)

1. (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
2. (transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
   • 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II

     The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.

3. (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
   • 1977, Michael Innes, The Gay Phoenix, ?ISBN, page 116:

     You are in the grounds of Brockholes Abbey, a house into which a great deal of valuable property has just been moved. And your job is to case the joint for a break in.

   • 2014, Amy Goodman, From COINTELPRO to Snowden, the FBI Burglars Speak Out After 43 Years of Silence (Part 2), Democracy Now!, January 8, 2014, 0:49 to 0:57:

     Bonnie worked as a daycare director. She helped case the FBI office by posing as a college student interested in becoming an FBI agent.

Translations

Derived terms

• case the deck

Anagrams

• ACEs, ASCE, Aces, Ceas, ESCA, SCEA, aces, aesc, esca, æsc

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???se/

Verb

casé

1. (transitive) hit

Conjugation

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 263

Asturian

Verb

case

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of casar

Chinese

Alternative forms

• K?

Etymology

Borrowed from English case.

Pronunciation

Noun

case

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) case (clarification of this definition is needed)
   • 2015, ???, ????????? II??????????

     ????case???????????????case?? [Cantonese, trad.]
     ????case???????????????case?? [Cantonese, simp.]

     ni¹ go³ hou² do¹ kei¹ si² gaa³. ni¹ jat¹ go³, zau⁶ hai⁶ zoeng¹ gwok³ wing⁴, jau⁵ gam² go³ kei¹ si² laa¹. [Jyutping]

     That kind of case happens often. It happened with Leslie Cheung.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin casa, in the sense of "hut, cabin". The other senses are a semantic loan from Spanish casa. Doublet of chez, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?z/
• Homophone: cases

Noun

case f (plural cases)

1. (archaic, rare or regional) hut, cabin, shack
2. box (on form)
3. square (on board game)

Derived terms

• case départ
• case à cocher

Further reading

• “case” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• à sec

Galician

Alternative forms

• caixe

Etymology

Attested since the 15th century (quasy), from Latin quasi (“as if”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?s?]

Adverb

case

1. almost

References

• “quasy” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “case” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “case” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “case” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ca?se

Noun

case f

1. plural of casa

Anagrams

• asce, esca, seca

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?sas?/, [?t?sas?]

Noun

case

1. nominative/accusative plural of cas

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *k?si, from late Proto-West Germanic *k?s?, borrowed from Latin c?seus.

Noun

câse m or n

1. cheese

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• kese (eastern)

Descendants

• Dutch: kaas
  • Afrikaans: kaas
    • ? Sotho: kase
    • ? Tswana: kase
  • ? Papiamentu: keshi (from the diminutive)
  • ? Sranan Tongo: kasi
• Limburgish: kieës, kees

Further reading

• “case”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “case (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Old French

Noun

case m (oblique plural cases, nominative singular cases, nominative plural case)

1. (grammar) case

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ca?se
• Rhymes: -azi

Verb

case

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

Romanian

Noun

case

1. plural of cas?

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kase/, [?ka.se]

Verb

case

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

Venetian

Noun

case

1. plural of casa