different between coffin vs casc

English

Alternative forms

• cophin (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek ??????? (kóphinos, “a basket”). Doublet of coffer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?f?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?f?n/
• (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?k?f?n/
• Rhymes: -?f?n
• Rhymes: -?f?n

Noun

coffin (plural coffins)

1. A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.

   Synonym: (US) casket

   • 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?

     I’d always found the royals a cold proposition, Diana excepted, but the sight of that little boy, his head bent, not daring to look up at his mother’s coffin in front of him was, and remains, genuinely heartbreaking.

2. (cartomancy) The eighth Lenormand card.
3. (archaic) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
   • 1596, The Good Huswife's Jewell

     Take your mallard and put him into the iuyce of the sayde Onyons, and season him with pepper, and salte, cloues and mace, then put your Mallard into the coffin with the saide iuyce of the onyons.

4. (obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)

5. The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
6. A storage container for nuclear waste.

Usage notes

• The type of coffin with upholstery and a half-open lid (mostly in the United States) is called a casket.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

coffin (third-person singular simple present coffins, present participle coffining, simple past and past participle coffined)

1. (transitive) To place in a coffin.
   • 2007, Barbara Everett, "Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances," London Review of Books, 29:6, page 21:

     The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.

Synonyms

• encoffin

Translations

Further reading

• coffin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Noun

coffin (plural)

1. Alternative form of coffyn

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish casco.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

casc m (plural cascs or cascos)

1. helmet (protective headgear)

   Synonym: elm

2. (heraldry) helmet (feature on a coat of arms)
3. cask, bottle
4. town centre

Derived terms

• casquet
• casqueta

Further reading

• “casc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “casc” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “casc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “casc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Romanian

Verb

casc

1. first-person singular present indicative of c?sca
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of c?sca

Romansch

Etymology

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Noun

casc m (plural cascs)

1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) helmet

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) chapellina
• (Sutsilvan) tgaplegna
• (Surmiran) capeligna