different between cess vs cass

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

Etymology uncertain. Occurs in print at least as early as 1831, when Samuel Lover used the expression as one already long-established. He unambiguously stated the derivation of cess in the malediction bad cess to be an abbreviation of success.. OED speculated that it either was from success or from assessment meaning a military or governmental exaction.

Noun

cess (plural cesses)

1. (Britain, Ireland) An assessed tax, duty, or levy.
2. (Britain, Ireland, informal) Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
3. (obsolete) Bound; measure.

Verb

cess (third-person singular simple present cesses, present participle cessing, simple past and past participle cessed)

1. (Britain, Ireland) To levy a cess.

Derived terms

• bad cess

See also

• cease
• cessation

Etymology 2

Possibly from an archaic dialect word meaning “bog”.

Noun

cess (plural cesses)

1. (rail transport) The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
2. (obsolete, dialect) A bog, in particular a peat bog.
3. (obsolete, dialect) A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel.

Derived terms

• cess path
• cess heave

See also

• cesspool
• cesspit

Etymology 3

From French cesser. See cease.

Verb

cess (third-person singular simple present cesses, present participle cessing, simple past and past participle cessed)

1. (obsolete, law) To cease; to neglect.

Anagrams

• CSEs, ECSS, ESCs, secs, secs.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• Cess (alternative capitalization)

Noun

cess m (definite singular cessen, indefinite plural cessar, definite plural cessane)

1. (music) C-flat

Derived terms

• cess-dur m

Swedish

Noun

cess n

1. C-flat

Declension

Related terms

• ciss

References

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English cassen, from Old French casser, from Late Latin cass?, from Latin cassus (“empty, hollow”), and perhaps influenced by quass? (“to shake, shatter”).

Verb

cass (third-person singular simple present casses, present participle cassing, simple past and past participle cassed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away.

   •1687 James II/VII of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland Declaration of Indulgence  : "(...)Do therefore, with Advice and Consent aforesaid, Cass, Annul and Discharge all Oaths whatsoever, by which any of Our Subjects are incapacitated or disabled from holding Places, or Offices in Our said Kingdom (...)"

Etymology 2

Noun

cass

1. (computing, dated) Abbreviation of cassette.
   • 1985, Stephen Doyle, GCSE Computer Studies for You (page 214)

     STOCK CONTROL / CASS / DATASOFT / 12.81

   • 1988, PC Mag (volume 7, number 7, page 62)

     Radio Shaft color computer w/printer & cass. drive, several programs, $250.

Anagrams

• ASCs, CSAs, SACs, Sacs, sacs

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?s/

Noun

cass f (genitive singular coshey, plural cassyn)

1. foot, leg

Derived terms

• daa-chassagh, daa-choshagh
• yl-chassagh, yl-choshagh

Mutation