different between lineage vs caste
lineage
English
Alternative forms
- linage
Etymology
From Middle English linage, from Old French linage, from ligne, from Latin linea (“line”); equivalent to line +? -age.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?.ni.?d?/
Noun
lineage (countable and uncountable, plural lineages)
- Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
- (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.
- A fee or rate paid per line of text.
Related terms
- line
- lineal
- linear
Translations
See also
- genealogy
References
- lineage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- lineage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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caste
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)
- Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
- Hyponyms: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra, Vaishya, varna
- A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
- (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
- (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)
- caste (hereditary class)
- 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)
- 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
- Por aquí nacen os ricos polo outro probes labregos. Estas son as dúas castes que hai en todo o mundo inteiro.
- 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 29:
- 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
- Dime logo que o probe do animal ou é de mala caste, ou ben non come
- 1859, Ramón Barros Silvelo, Un dia de desfertuna, page 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.
- { soy llamado Pedro Luces ... } - To to to, vamos con tento que un home con ese nome pode ser caste do demo.
- Synonyms: estirpe, fruxe, liñaxe
- 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 8:
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
- feminine plural of casto
Noun
caste f
- 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?)
- purely, spotlessly, virtuously
- 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
- 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
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