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English

Etymology

From Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta (“to throw, cast, overturn”), from Proto-Germanic *kast?n? (“to throw, cast”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots cast (“to cast, throw”), Danish kaste (“to throw”), Swedish kasta (“to throw, cast, fling, toss, discard”), Icelandic kasta (“to pitch, toss”). In the sense of "flinging", displaced native warp.

The senses relating to broadcasting are based on that same term; compare -cast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation): enPR: käst, IPA^(key): /k??st/
• (Northern England): enPR: k?st, IPA^(key): /kast/
• (General American): enPR: k?st, IPA^(key): /kæst/
• Rhymes: -??st, -æst
• Homophones: caste, karst

Verb

cast (third-person singular simple present casts, present participle casting, simple past and past participle cast or (nonstandard) casted)

1. (physical) To move, or be moved, away.
   1. (now somewhat literary) To throw. [from 13^thc.]
      • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona:

        Why then a Ladder quaintly made of Cords / To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, / Would serue to scale another Hero's towre […].

      • 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, p.262:

        The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow […].

   2. To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea. [from 14^thc.]
      • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 4:

        As Jesus walked by the see off Galile, he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, castynge a neet into the see (for they were fisshers) […].

   3. To throw down or aside. [from 15^thc.]
      • 1611, Bible, Authorized Version, Matthew VI.30:

        it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

      • 1930, "Sidar the Madman", Time, 19 Dec.:

        Near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Madman, co-pilot and plane were caught in a storm, cast into the Caribbean, drowned.

      • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, 2010, p.316:

        Her bow is not to her liking. In a temper, she casts it on the grass.

   4. (of an animal) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat. [from 15^thc.]
   5. To cause (a horse or other large animal) to lie down with its legs underneath it.
   6. (obsolete except in set phrases) To remove, take off (clothes). [from 14^thc.]
      • 1822, "Life of Donald McBane", Blackwood's Magazine, vol.12, p.745:

        when the serjeant saw me, he cast his coat and put it on me, and they carried me on their shoulders to a village where the wounded were and our surgeons […].

      • 2002, Jess Cartner-Morley, "How to Wear Clothes", The Guardian, 2 March:

        You know the saying, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out"? Well, personally, I'm bored of my winter clothes by March.

   7. (nautical) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
   8. (obsolete) To vomit.

      • These verses […] make me ready to cast.

   9. (archaic) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.

      • Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.
   10. (archaic) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
       • 1695 (first published), 1726 (final dated of publication) John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies

         This […] casts a sulphurous smell.

   • 1849, Philip Henry Gosse, Natural History

     This horned bird, as it casts a strong smell, so it hath a foul look, much exceeding the European Raven in bigness

2. To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.). [from 13^thc.]
   • 1595, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3:

     To whom do Lyons cast their gentle Lookes? Not to the Beast, that would vsurpe their Den.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, I.11:

     She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement […].
3. (dated) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures. [from 14^thc.]
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2:

     The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and / reade, and cast accompt.

   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     I cast up the notches on my post, and found I had been on shore three hundred and sixty-five days.

4. (social) To predict, to decide, to plan.
   1. (astrology) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.). [from 14^thc.]
      • , vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.309:

        he is […] a perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use.

      • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, 2012, p.332:

        John Gadbury confessed that Mrs Cellier, ‘the Popish Midwife’, had asked him to cast the King's nativity, although the astrology claimed to have refused to do so.

      • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p.1197:

        He did the washing up and stayed behind to watch the dinner cook while she hopped off with a friend to have her horoscope cast by another friend.

   2. (obsolete) To plan, intend. [14^th-19^thc.]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

        I wrapt my selfe in Palmers weed, / And cast to seeke him forth through daunger and great dreed.

      • 1685, William Temple, "Upon the Gardens of Epicurus

        The cloister […] had, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house].

   3. (transitive) To assign (a role in a play or performance). [from 18^thc.]

   4. (transitive) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).

   5. To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.

      • She […] cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.

   6. (archaic) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
      • Cast thy burden upon the Lord.

   7. (archaic) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.
      • 1822, John Galt, The Provost

        She was cast to be hanged.

      • 1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety

        Were the case referred to any competent judge, […] they would inevitably be cast.

   8. To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
      • 24 July, 1659, Robert South, Interest Deposed, and Truth Restored

        How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!

5. To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
6. To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
   • 1950, "A Global View", Time, 24 April:

     The threat of Russian barbarism sweeping over the free world will cast its ominous shadow over us for many, many years.

   • 1960, Lawrence Durrell, Clea:

     A sudden thought cast a gloom over his countenance.

7. (archaic) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry. [from 15^thc.]
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.98:

     being with childe, they may without feare of accusation, spoyle and cast [transl. avorter] their children, with certaine medicaments, which they have only for that purpose.

   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.20:

     The abortion of a woman they describe by an horse kicking a wolf; because a mare will cast her foal if she tread in the track of that animal.

9. To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way. [from 15^thc.]
   • 1923, "Rodin's Death", Time, 24 March:

     One copy of the magnificent caveman, The Thinker, of which Rodin cast several examples in bronze, is seated now in front of the Detroit Museum of Art, where it was placed last autumn.

   1. (printing, dated) To stereotype or electrotype.
10. To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.). [from 16^thc.]
    • c. 1680, Joseph Moxon, The Art of Joinery

      Stuff is said to cast or warp when […] it alters its flatness or straightness.

11. (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round. [from 18^thc.]
12. To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote). [from 19^thc.]
13. (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text. [from 20^thc.]

14. (hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent. [from 18^thc.]
    • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, 2005, p.50:

      He clambered on to an apron of rock that held its area out to the sun and began to cast across it. The direction of the wind changed and the scent touched him again.

15. (medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.

    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

16. (Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
17. (media) To broadcast.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

cast (plural casts)

1. An act of throwing.
2. (fishing) An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
3. Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.

   • a cast of scatter'd dust

4. A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.

5. The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.

   He’s in the cast of Oliver.

   The cast was praised for a fine performance.

6. The casting procedure.

   The men got into position for the cast, two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.

7. An object made in a mould.

   The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.

8. A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.

   The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.

9. The mould used to make cast objects.

   A plaster cast was made from his face.

10. (hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:

      As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / An an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […].

11. A squint.
    • 1847, John Churchill, A manual of the principles and practice of ophthalmic medicine and surgery, p. 389, paragraph 1968:

      The image of the affected eye is clearer and in consequence the diplopy more striking the less the cast of the eye; hence the double vision will be noticed by the patient before the misdirection of the eye attracts the attention of those about him.

    • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 7:

      Arriving in Brittany, the Woodville exiles found a sallow young man, with dark hair curled in the shoulder-length fashion of the time and a penchant for expensively dyed black clothes, whose steady gaze was made more disconcerting by a cast in his left eye – such that while one eye looked at you, the other searched for you.

12. Visual appearance.

    Her features had a delicate cast to them.
13. The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.

    a cast of mind, a mental tendency.

    • 1894, Wilson Lloyd Bevan, Sir William Petty : A Study in English Economic Literature, p. 40:

      The cast of mind which prompted the plan was permanent, and in it are to be found both the strength and the weakness of Petty's character.

    • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 330:

      I have read all her articles and come to admire both her elegant turn of phrase and the noble cast of mind which inspires it; but never, I confess, did I look to see beauty and wit so perfectly united.

14. An animal, especially a horse, that is unable to rise without assistance.
15. Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
16. A group of crabs.
17. A broadcast.

Derived terms

• castless
• plaster cast

Translations

Further reading

• cast at OneLook Dictionary Search
• cast in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ACTs, ATCs, ATSC, Acts, CATs, CTAs, Cats, STCA, TACS, TCAS, TCAs, TSCA, acts, cats, scat

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin castus, possibly borrowed or semi-learned.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kast/

Adjective

cast (feminine casta, masculine plural casts or castos, feminine plural castes)

1. chaste

Related terms

• castedat

Further reading

• “cast” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k??st]
• Hyphenation: cast

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English cast.

Noun

cast m (plural casts, diminutive castje n)

1. cast (people performing a movie or play)

Synonyms

• rolbezetting
• rolverdeling

Related terms

• casten

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

cast

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of casten
2. imperative of casten

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English cast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kast/
• Hyphenation: càst

Noun

cast m (invariable)

1. cast (group of actors performing together)

Manx

Adjective

cast

1. contorted, curly, curved
2. complex, intricate, many-sided
3. ticklish

Mutation

Derived terms

• castid
• castys
• neuchast
• yl-chast

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin castus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kast/

Adjective

cast m or n (feminine singular cast?, masculine plural ca?ti, feminine and neuter plural caste)

1. chaste, clean, pure

Declension

Synonyms

• pur

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kast/, [?kast?]

Noun

cast m (plural casts)

1. cast (group of actors)

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