different between caste vs type

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish casta (“lineage, breed, race”), of uncertain origin. The OED derives it from Portuguese casto (“chaste”), from Latin castus.Coromines (1987) argues instead for a hypothetical Gothic form *???????????????????? (*kasts), cognate with English cast, from Proto-Germanic *kastuz.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: käst, IPA^(key): /k??st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kæst/
• Homophones: cast, karst (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -??st

Noun

caste (plural castes)

1. Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.

   Hyponyms: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra, Vaishya, varna

2. A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
3. (zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.

Derived terms

• casteless

Translations

Anagrams

• Cates, Stace, cates, scate, sceat, taces

Dutch

Verb

caste

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of casten

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese casta, probably of Gothic and Germanic origin, or alternatively from a derivative of Latin castus.

Noun

caste f (plural castes)

1. caste (hereditary class)
2. class (social position)

References

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

Galician

Alternative forms

• casta

Etymology

Probably from Gothic *???????????????????? (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, *kast?n? (“to throw, cast”), compare English cast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kaste?/

Noun

caste f (plural castes)

1. species, race or kind
   • 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 29:

     Por aquí nacen os ricos polo outro probes labregos. Estas son as dúas castes que hai en todo o mundo inteiro.

     Here the rich people are born, there the poor peasants; these are the two races that there are in the whole world

2. quality
   • 1859, Ramón Barros Silvelo, Un dia de desfertuna, page 3:

     Dime logo que o probe do animal ou é de mala caste, ou ben non come

     He readily told me that the animal [that I was selling] either was of bad quality, or either it didn't eat

3. progeny; group of people that share a common ancestor
   • 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 8:

     { soy llamado Pedro Luces ... } - To to to, vamos con tento que un home con ese nome pode ser caste do demo.

     {I am called Peter Lights...} —Wo wo wo! Let us be careful: a man with that name could de a Devil's child.

   Synonyms: estirpe, fruxe, liñaxe

Derived terms

• castizar (“to mate”)
• castizo (“stud pig”)
• de caste (“selected”)

References

• “caste” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “caste” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “caste” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Adjective

caste

1. feminine plural of casto

Noun

caste f

1. plural of casta

Anagrams

• cesta

Latin

Etymology 1

From castus +? -?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kas.te?/, [?käs?t?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kas.te/, [?k?st??]

Adverb

cast? (comparative castius, superlative castissim?)

1. purely, spotlessly, virtuously
2. piously, religiously

Etymology 2

Inflected form of castus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kas.te/, [?käs?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kas.te/, [?k?st??]

Adjective

caste

1. vocative masculine singular of castus

References

• caste in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caste in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caste in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek ????? (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from ????? (túpt?, “I strike, beat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?p/
• Rhymes: -a?p

Noun

type (plural types)

1. A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

2. An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
3. An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
   • 1872, Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal, volume 3, page 116:

     Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.

4. (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
   1. (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
   2. (chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.

      The headline was set in bold type.

5. (taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
6. Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.

7. (medicine) A blood group.
8. (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
9. (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
10. (computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
11. (fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
12. (chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.

    The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.

13. (mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
    • 2011, V.N. Grishin (originator), "Types, theory of", in Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150

      Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type-theoretic systems.

Synonyms

• (grouping based on shared characteristics): category, class, genre, group, kind, nature, sort, stripe, tribe
• (computing theory): data type
• (printing): sort
• (mathematics): sort
• See also Thesaurus:class

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???
• ? Korean: ?? (taip)

Translations

Verb

type (third-person singular simple present types, present participle typing, simple past and past participle typed)

1. To put text on paper using a typewriter.
2. To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
3. To determine the blood type of.

4. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
5. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.

   • Let us type them now in our own lives.

6. To categorize into types.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Esperanto: tajpi

Translations

References

• type at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• pyet

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin typus, from Ancient Greek ????? (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from ????? (túpt?, “I strike, beat”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ty?pe

Noun

type n (plural types or typen, diminutive typetje n)

1. type: a class, someone or something from a class. The diminutive is used when made into a caricature.

Derived terms

• woningtype

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: tipe

Verb

type

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of typen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin typus, from Ancient Greek ????? (túpos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tip/

Noun

type m (plural types)

1. type; sort, kind
2. (colloquial) guy, bloke, man
3. (typography) typeface

Descendants

• ? Polish: typ
• ? Romanian: tip

Adjective

type (plural types)

1. typical, normal, classic
2. (statistics) standard

Further reading

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

Latin

Noun

type

1. vocative singular of typus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (túpos).

Noun

type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typer, definite plural typene)

1. a type (kind, sort)
2. typeface
3. (slang) a male person, a boy or man
4. (slang) someone's boyfriend

References

• “type” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (túpos).

Noun

type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typar, definite plural typane)

1. a type (kind, sort)

References

• “type” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.