casa

Borrowed from Spanish casa. Doublet of chez.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːsə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːsə

casa (plural casas)

1. (slang) house

   Get out of my casa!

   • 1896, Bret Harte, Stories in Light and Shadow:

     I saw that Enriquez had made no attempt to modernize the old casa, and that even the garden was left in its lawless native luxuriance.

   • 1991 May 12, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:

     Chuffy: WHAT? No, no, no, no, no. My casa is your casa, what?

• A.A.C.S., AACS, AACs, ACAS, ACAs, ASAC, ASCA, CAAs

Aragonese Wikipedia has an article on:

casa

Wikipedia ^an

From Latin casa.

casa f (plural casas)

1. house

Asturian Wikipedia has an article on:

casa

Wikipedia ^ast

From Latin casa.

casa f (plural cases)

1. house
2. household, family (that live together)
3. inner space of shoes (especially clog's)
4. stable

• casa conceyu
• casa ganáu
• casa Dios
• de casa

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -aza

Inherited from Latin casa.

casa f (plural cases)

1. house

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

casa

1. inflection of casar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “casa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “casa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “casa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “casa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Corsican Wikipedia has an article on:

casa

Wikipedia ^co

From Latin casa. Cognates include Italian casa and Spanish casa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.za/
• Hyphenation: ca‧sa

casa f (plural case)

1. house

   Synonym: domu

• “casa” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

casa

1. house

• IPA^(key): /ka.za/

casa

1. third-person singular past historic of caser

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasa/
• Rhymes: -asa
• Hyphenation: ca‧sa

From Old Galician-Portuguese casa, from Latin casa.

• cas

casa f (plural casas)

1. house
   1. structure serving as an abode of human beings
   2. farmhouse
   3. noble family; lineage

      Casa de Andrade ― House of Andrade

      Synonym: dinastía

   4. company, firm
2. home (one’s own dwelling place)

   Synonyms: fogar, lar

3. (board games) a cell which may be occupied by a piece (such as a square in a chessboard)

When preceding the preposition de the apocopated form cas, rather than casa, is frequently used.

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “casa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “casa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “casa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “casa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “casa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

casa

1. inflection of casar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.sa/

casa (plural casas)

1. house
2. home

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑsˠə/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkasˠə/

casa

1. nominative/vocative/dative and strong genitive plural of cas

casa

1. inflection of cas:
   1. present subjunctive analytic
   2. (obsolete) second-person singular present indicative

From Latin casa (“house”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.za/, (traditional) /ˈka.sa/^[1]

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• Rhymes: -aza, (traditional) -asa
• Hyphenation: cà‧sa

casa f (plural case, diminutive casìna or casétta or casettìna, augmentative casóna or casóne m, pejorative casàccia, endearing-derogatory casùccia)

1. house

   Synonyms: abitazione, dimora

2. home
3. family, dynasty, descent, stock, lineage, birth, origin

   Synonyms: casato, stirpe, dinastia

   è di casa nobile ― he is of noble descent

4. homeland, fatherland

   Synonym: patria

   1. (figurative) one's customs

      A casa mia queste cose non si fanno.

      We don't do these things where I come from.

5. (board games) square

   Synonym: casella

6. structure for public use
   1. structure for a collective or plurality or people

      casa rifugio ― safe house

      casa da gioco ― casino (literally, “game house”)

   2. place of religious gathering

      Synonyms: chiesa, convento, monastero

      casa di Dio ― house of God

      casa religiosa ― religious institution

   3. institution for punishment or corrections

      casa di correzione ― corrections facility

      casa di cura e custodia ^Wp ― psychiatric institution (literally, “care and custody facility”)

      casa di pena ― prison (literally, “house of punishment”)

   4. company, firm, shop

      Synonyms: ditta, azienda, società

      casa editrice ― publishing house

      casa di spedizioni ― shipments company

   5. (colloquial, euphemistic) brothel, whorehouse

• casa on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• casa in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• casa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• casa in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• casa in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• casa in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• casa in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• casa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Uncertain. Possibly from either Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net”) (compare catēna (“chain”)), or Proto-Indo-European *ket- (“hut, shed”) (compare Old English heaþor (“restraint, confinement, enclosure, prison”), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”), Mazanderani کَت (kat, “wall”)), likely through borrowing from another Indo-European language rather than inheritance due to the presence of the medial -s-.^[1] Ultimately may be of substrate or wanderwort origin; more at cot, and see Proto-Uralic *kota.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.sa/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.sa/,

casa f (genitive casae); first declension

1. hut, cottage, cabin

   Synonyms: aedēs, domus, domicilium, habitātiō, mānsiō, sēdēs, tēctum

2. rural property, small farm
3. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) dwelling, residence, house

First-declension noun.

• “casa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “casa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• casa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• casa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “casa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sasa/

casa

1. inflection of cas:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

From Portuguese casa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaza/, /ˈkazɐ/

casa (plural casa-casa)

1. house
2. home

   na casa ― at home

   trabalo di casa ― homework

• Not to be confused with casâ (“to marry”).

• casarám (“big house, mansion”)

Occitan Wikipedia has an article on:

casa

Wikipedia ^oc

From Old Occitan , from Latin casa.

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casa f (plural cases)

1. house

• cassa

From Latin casa (“cottage”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaza/

casa f (plural casas)

1. house
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 42v:

     dixo eliſeu_s q́t fare di q́ as entu caſſa. la maceba nulla coſa en caſa. ſi nõ una oliera de olio

     Elisha said, “What can I do for you? Tell , what do you have in your house?” “Your maidservant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”

   • Idem, f. 80r.

     por aq́l logar dixo nŕo ſeñor a ieremias, ve a caſa del orcero e ẏ fablare cõtigo.

     Around that place Our Lord said to Jeremiah, “Go to the potter's house, and I will speak to you there.”

• Ladino: kaza
• Spanish: casa

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• Rhymes: -azɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧sa

From Old Galician-Portuguese casa, from Latin casa (“cottage”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net; hut, shed”).

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

casa

Wikipedia ^pt

• caza (obsolete)

casa f (plural casas)

1. house
   1. structure serving as an abode of human beings
      • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 135:

        Ele agora tem uma casa nas montanhas.

        He now has a house in the mountains.

      Aquela casa é grande. ― That house is big.

   2. building or institution serving as something other than residence, such as a shop

      Casa de carnes. ― Butcher’s shop.

   3. noble family

      Synonym: dinastia

      Casa de Bragança ― House of Braganza

2. home (one’s own dwelling place)

   Synonym: lar

   Estou em casa. ― I'm at home.

3. (board games) a cell which may be occupied by a piece (such as a square in a chessboard)

   O peão está uma casa à direita do cavalo. ― The pawn is one square to the right of the knight.

4. a digit position

   No número 12345, o algarismo 3 ocupa a casa das centenas. ― In the number 12345, the digit 3 is in the hundreds’ place.

5. (slang) a destined place for shows or festive meetings

   A casa encheu por causa do espetáculo dele. ― The place was full because of his show.

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: kasa, kaza
• Indo-Portuguese: casa
• Kabuverdianu: kasa
• Karipúna Creole French: kaz
• Korlai Creole Portuguese: kadz
• Kristang: kaza
• Macanese: casa
• Papiamentu: kas (partly)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

casa

1. inflection of casar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

For quotations using this term, see Citations:casar.

• “casa”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “casa”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “casa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “casa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “casa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “casa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

casa

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of casă

Borrowed from French casser.

a casa (third-person singular present casează, past participle casat) 1st conj.

1. to annul a court decision

• chasa (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader)
• tgea, tgeasa (Sutsilvan)
• tgesa, tga (Surmiran)
• chesa (Puter)

From Latin casa.

casa f (plural casas)

1. (Sursilvan) house

From Latin casa.

casa f (plural casi)

1. house

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasa/

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• Audio (Latin America):

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• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ca‧sa
• Homophone: (Latin America) caza

Inherited from Latin casa (“cottage”).

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

casa

Wikipedia ^es

casa f (plural casas)

1. house

• → Cebuano: kasa
• → English: casa
• → Papiamentu: kas (partly)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

casa

1. inflection of casar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• hogar
• lar

• “casa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Compare Italian cassa

casa f (plural case)

1. case
2. cash desk
3. fund
4. coffin

• →⇒ Cimbrian: kèssle

• caxa