different between casten vs costen

English

Verb

casten

1. (archaic, poetic) past participle of cast

Quotations

1. • 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, L:LXXX:

     With No?e up-turn'd, he always made a Shew

     As if he ?melt ?ome nau?eous Scent; his Eye

     Was cold, and keen, like Bla?t from boreal Snow;

     And Taunts he ca?ten forth mo?t bitterly.

Anagrams

• ascent, enacts, scante, secant, stance

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st?(n)/, [?k??st?(n)]
• Hyphenation: cas?ten
• Homophone: kasten (by the first pronunciation)

Verb

casten

1. (transitive) to cast, assign performing parts in a production

Inflection

Related terms

• cast

German

Etymology

From English cast, from Old Norse kasta, from Proto-Germanic *kast?n?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?st?n/
• Homophone: Karsten (one pronunciation)

Verb

casten (weak, third-person singular present castet, past tense castete, past participle gecastet, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to audition; to have a casting (evaluate people for a perfoming part)

2. (transitive, less common, at least in non-specialist use) to cast (choose someone for a performing part)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (audition): vorsprechen lassen
• (cast): besetzen (the usual word); auswählen; verpflichten

Related terms

• Casting

English

Etymology

From Middle English costnien, from Old English costnian, subsidiary form of Old English costian (“to tempt, try, prove, examine”), from Proto-Germanic *kust?n? (“to try, taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ews- (“to enjoy, taste”). Cognate with German kosten (“to taste”). More at choose.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.s?n/

Verb

costen (third-person singular simple present costens, present participle costening, simple past and past participle costened)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To try; tempt.

Related terms

• cost
• costning

Anagrams

• Contés, Tecson, c notes, c-notes, centos, socnet

Catalan

Verb

costen

1. third-person plural present indicative form of costar