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cases
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ke?s?z/
Noun
cases
- plural of case
Verb
cases
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of case
Anagrams
- SCEAs, casse
Asturian
Verb
cases
- second-person singular present indicative of casar
- second-person singular present subjunctive of casar
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?ka.z?s/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?ka.zes/
- Rhymes: -azes
Etymology 1
Noun
cases
- plural of casa
Etymology 2
Verb
cases
- second-person singular present indicative form of casar
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaz/
Verb
cases
- second-person singular present indicative of caser
- second-person singular present subjunctive of caser
Anagrams
- casse, cassé, cessa
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ca?ses
Verb
cases
- second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of casar
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of casar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kases/, [?ka.ses]
Etymology 1
Noun
cases m pl
- plural of cas
Etymology 2
Verb
cases
- Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of casar.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of casar.
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occasion
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French occasion, from Old French occasiun, from Latin occasionem (accusative of occasio), noun of action from perfect passive participle occasus, from verb occido, from prefix ob- (“down", "away”) + verb cado (“fall”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
- Hyphenation: oc?ca?sion
Noun
occasion (countable and uncountable, plural occasions)
- A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance. [from 14th c.]
- 1690, Edmund Waller, The Maids Tragedy Alter'd
- I'll take the occasion which he gives to bring / Him to his death.
- 1690, Edmund Waller, The Maids Tragedy Alter'd
- The time when something happens.
- An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason. [from 14th c.]
- Something which causes something else; a cause. [from 14th c.]
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 130:
- it were too vile to say, and scarce to be beleeved, what we endured: but the occasion was our owne, for want of providence, industrie and government [...].
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 130:
- (obsolete) An occurrence or incident. [14th-18th c.]
- A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred. [from 15th c.]
- Need; requirement, necessity. [from 16th c.]
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- after we have served ourselves and our own occasions
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- when my occasions took me into France
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- A special event or function. [from 19th c.]
- A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
Derived terms
- occasional
- on occasion
- rise to the occasion
Translations
Verb
occasion (third-person singular simple present occasions, present participle occasioning, simple past and past participle occasioned)
- (transitive) To cause; to produce; to induce
- it is seen that the mental changes are occasioned by a change of polarity
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin occ?si?nem (accusative of occ?si?). Compare the inherited Old French ochoison, achaison (the latter being influenced by Latin acc?s?ti?).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.ka.zj??/
Noun
occasion f (plural occasions)
- occasion, opportunity
- cause
- bargain, good deal
- secondhand or used item
Derived terms
Further reading
- “occasion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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- what occasionally always never
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