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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish casa. Doublet of chez.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??s?/

Noun

casa (plural casas)

1. (slang) house
   • 1896, Bret Harte, Stories in Light and Shadow

     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?

Anagrams

• A.A.C.S., AACS, AACs, ACAS, ACAs, ASAC, ASCA, CAAs

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

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ka.z?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka.za/
• Rhymes: -aza

Etymology 1

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

Noun

casa f (plural cases)

1. house

Derived terms

Related terms

• casella
• casera

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

casa

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

Further reading

• “casa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “casa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “casa” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “casa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin casa. Cognates include Italian casa and Spanish casa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kasa/
• Hyphenation: ca?sa

Noun

casa f (plural case)

1. house

   Synonym: domu

References

• “casa” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.za/

Verb

casa

1. third-person singular past historic of caser

Galician

Alternative forms

• cas

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese casa, from Latin casa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [?kas??]

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

1. house
   1. structure serving as an abode of human beings
   2. farmhouse
   3. noble family; lineage

      Synonym: dinastía

   4. company, firm
2. home (one’s own dwelling place)

   Synonyms: fogar, lar

3. (board games) a cell which may be occupied by a piece (such as a square in a chessboard)

Usage notes

When preceding the preposition de the apocopated form cas, rather than casa, is frequently used.

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• “casa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “casa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “casa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “casa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “casa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.sa/

Noun

casa (plural casas)

1. house
2. home

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /?k?s??/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /?kas??/

Adjective

casa

1. nominative/vocative/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

Italian

Etymology

From Latin casa (“house”).

Pronunciation

• (Central and Southern Italy) IPA^(key): /?ka.za/, (traditional) /?ka.sa/
• (Northern Italy, Sardinia) IPA^(key): /?ka.za/
• Hyphenation: cà?sa

Noun

casa f (plural case)

1. house

   Synonyms: abitazione, dimora

2. home
3. family, dynasty, descent, stock, lineage, birth, origin

   Synonyms: casato, stirpe, dinastia

4. homeland, fatherland

   Synonym: patria

5. (board games) square

   Synonym: casella

6. structure for public use
   1. structure for a collective or plurality or people

   2. place of religious gathering

      Synonyms: chiesa, convento, monastero

   3. institution for punishment or corrections

   4. company, firm, shop

      Synonyms: ditta, azienda, società

   5. (colloquial, euphemistic) brothel, whorehouse

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• casa on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• casa in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• casa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• casa in Grandi Dizionari
• casa in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• casa in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti
• casa in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• casa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology 1

Possibly from either Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net”) (compare cat?na (“chain”)), or Proto-Indo-European *ket- (“hut, shed”) (compare Old English heaþor (“restraint, confinement, enclosure, prison”), Avestan ????????????????? (kata, “chamber”), Mazanderani ???? (kat, “wall”)), likely through borrowing from another Indo-European language rather than inheritance due to the presence of the medial -s-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.sa/, [?käs?ä]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?ka?.sa/, [?ka?sa]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.sa/, [?k??s??]

Noun

casa f (genitive casae); first declension

1. hut, cottage, cabin

   Synonyms: aed?s, domus, domicilium, habit?ti?, m?nsi?, s?d?s, t?ctum

2. rural property, small farm
3. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) dwelling, residence, house

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• k?sa: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka?.sa/, [?kä?s?ä]
• k?sa: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.sa/, [?k??s??]
• k?s?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka?.sa?/, [?kä?s?ä?]
• k?s?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.sa/, [?k??s??]

Participle

c?sa

1. nominative/vocative feminine singular of c?sus
2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of c?sus

Participle

c?s?

1. ablative feminine singular of c?sus

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

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?sasa/

Noun

casa

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

Macanese

Noun

casa (plural casa-casa)

1. house

Occitan

Etymology

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

Noun

casa f (plural cases)

1. house

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• cassa

Etymology

From Latin casa (“cottage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ka.za]

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

1. house
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 42v.

   • Idem, f. 80r.

Descendants

• Spanish: casa

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?ka.z?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?ka.z?/, [?kä.z??]
• Hyphenation: ca?sa
• Rhymes: -aza

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese casa, from Latin casa (“cottage”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net; hut, shed”).

Alternative forms

• caza (obsolete)

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

1. house
   1. structure serving as an abode of human beings

   2. building or institution serving as something other than residence, such as a shop

   3. noble family

      Synonym: dinastia

2. home (one’s own dwelling place)

   Synonym: lar

3. (board games) a cell which may be occupied by a piece (such as a square in a chessboard)
4. a digit position

Usage notes

In certain phrases, the definite article is omitted when referring to one's own home.

• Examples: em casa (instead of na casa), para casa (instead of para a casa)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

casa

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of casar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of casar

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:casar.

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: kasa

Further reading

• “casa” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “casa” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “casa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “casa” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.
• “casa” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “casa” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Noun

casa f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cas?

Romansch

Alternative forms

• chasa (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader)
• tgea, tgeasa (Sutsilvan)
• tgesa, tga (Surmiran)
• chesa (Puter)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kasa/, [?ka.sa]
• Homophone: caza (seseo and ceceo dialects)

Etymology 1

From Latin casa (“cottage”).

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

1. house

Derived terms

• (diminutives): casilla, casita
• (augmentatives): caserón, casona, casota
• (pejoratives): casucha

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: kasa
• ? English: casa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

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

• hogar
• lar

Further reading

• “casa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian cassa

Noun

casa f (plural case)

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

See also

• caxa

English

Etymology

From Turkish kaza, from Arabic ??????? (qa???).

Noun

caza (plural cazas)

1. A Turkish provincial subdivision.

References

Asturian

Verb

caza

1. inflection of cazar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Galician

Noun

caza f (plural cazas)

1. hunting
2. hunt

Related terms

• cazar

Further reading

• “caza” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Portuguese

Noun

caza f (plural cazas)

1. Obsolete spelling of casa

Verb

caza

1. Obsolete spelling of casa

Romanian

Etymology

From French caser.

Verb

a caza (third-person singular present cazeaz?, past participle cazat) 1st conj.

1. to house, to shelter

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology

Deverbal form of cazar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?ka?a/, [?ka.?a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?kasa/, [?ka.sa]
• Rhymes: -a?a, -asa
• Hyphenation: ca?za
• Homophone: casa (seseo dialects)

Noun

caza f (plural cazas)

1. (countable or uncountable) hunting, hunt (act of finding and killing a wild animal; art of hunting)
2. persecution, hunting (act of pursuing in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict)
3. (uncountable) game (wild animals hunted for food; meat of these animals)
4. (uncountable) prey (animal hunted by another animal)
5. hunting ground (area used for hunting)
6. hunting party (group of people gathered to hunt together)

Noun

caza m (plural cazas)

1. fighter plane (military aircraft primarily designed to attack enemy aircraft)

Derived terms

• avión de caza
• dar caza

Related terms

• cazador
• cazar

Verb

caza

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of cazar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of cazar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of cazar.

Further reading

• “caza” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.