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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.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

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

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