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See also: Casco, cascó, and cascò

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish casco. Doublet of cask and casque.

Noun

casco (plural cascos)

  1. (nautical) A flat-bottomed, square-ended boat once used in the Philippines as a lighter to ferry goods between ship and shore

Anagrams

Catalan

Verb

casco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cascar

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish casco.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑs.kɔː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: cas‧co

Noun

casco n (uncountable)

  1. shell of a building, car or ship

Galician

Casco de Leiro, Bronze Age

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkasko/
  • Rhymes: -asko
  • Hyphenation: cas‧co

Etymology 1

First attested in the 13th century. Back-formation from cascar.

Noun

casco m (plural cascos)

  1. casque; helmet; skull
    Synonyms: capacete, helmo, chola, borguiñota, gocete, camal
    • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 639:
      en guisa que llj tallou o almofar da loriga cõ hũa muy grã peça do casco
      in such a way that he cut the mail aventail together with a large piece of the casque
    • 1671, Gabriel Feijoo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:
      eu quero mal à esta jente
      einos de por en talladas
      esfarelandoll'os cascos
      do corpo sacarll'as almas
      I wish ill these people
      I'll make slices of them
      crushing them helmets
      from them bodies I'll take out them souls
  2. hard hat
  3. (nautical) hulk; hull
  4. shell; husk
  5. hoof
    Synonym: pezuño
    • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 147:
      Quando o Cauallo ouver peeira deuen lle allinpar moy ben as huñas so as sollas do fondo do pee ataa que fique o casco moy sotil
      When the horse is ill in its foot they should clean the hooves, down under the sole of the feet, till the hoof is very subtle
  6. empty bottle
  7. bark of tree
    Synonyms: casca, cortiza, tona
  8. bran
    Synonym: casulo
Derived terms

References

Etymology 2

Verb

casco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cascar

Hungarian

 casco on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

Of debated origin; possibly from English casualty and collision[1] or Spanish casco (helmet, figuratively, “protection”, or “hull of a ship”, used in connection with injuries sustained while travelling).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

casco (plural cascók)

  1. (automotive) collision damage waiver
  2. (automotive) theft protection insurance
    Synonym: gépjármű-biztosítás (vehicle insurance in a broader sense)

Usage notes

This type of insurance does not necessarily include liability insurance, travel insurance of the passengers, or any other kind of insurance (such as for personal effects carried in the vehicle), although it may be supplemented with them, depending on individual plans or packages.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative casco cascók
accusative cascót cascókat
dative cascónak cascóknak
instrumental cascóval cascókkal
causal-final cascóért cascókért
translative cascóvá cascókká
terminative cascóig cascókig
essive-formal cascoként cascókként
essive-modal
inessive cascóban cascókban
superessive cascón cascókon
adessive cascónál cascóknál
illative cascóba cascókba
sublative cascóra cascókra
allative cascóhoz cascókhoz
elative cascóból cascókból
delative cascóról cascókról
ablative cascótól cascóktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
cascóé cascóké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
cascóéi cascókéi
Possessive forms of casco
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. cascóm cascóim
2nd person sing. cascód cascóid
3rd person sing. cascója cascói
1st person plural cascónk cascóink
2nd person plural cascótok cascóitok
3rd person plural cascójuk cascóik

References

  1. ^ CASCO jelentése: amit mindenképp érdemes tudni róla (Netrisk.hu, June 2nd, 2022)
  2. ^ Casco (Lexiq, July 20th, 2020)

Further reading

  • casco in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.sko/
  • Rhymes: -asko
  • Hyphenation: cà‧sco

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish casco.

Noun

casco m (plural caschi)

  1. helmet
  2. crash helmet
  3. hair dryer
  4. (collective) bunch (of bananas)
Descendants
  • Turkish: kasko

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

casco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cascare

Anagrams

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian casco or unadapted borrowing from Spanish casco.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkas.kɔ/
  • Rhymes: -askɔ
  • Syllabification: cas‧co

Noun

casco n (indeclinable)

  1. no-fault insurance

Derived terms

noun

Further reading

  • casco in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -asku, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃku
  • Hyphenation: cas‧co

Etymology 1

Deverbal from cascar.

Noun

casco m (plural cascos)

  1. skull, cranium
  2. (nautical) hull
  3. hoof, tip of a toe of ungulates
  4. shell (of a turtle)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

casco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cascar

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Deverbal from cascar (to split), from Latin quassō (shake, strike).

Alternative forms

Noun

casco m (plural cascos)

  1. helmet
  2. crown (top part of a hat)
  3. (nautical) hulk (unused ship)
  4. (nautical) hull (frame or body of a boat or ship)
  5. the foot of a horse; a hoof
    Synonym: pezuña
  6. the city center
  7. shard
  8. potsherd
  9. head (of an alcoholic beverage)
  10. hull of a vegetable
  11. vat, barrel
  12. saddle tree
  13. empty container, e.g. bottle or barrel
  14. (used in plural) headphones
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

casco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cascar

Further reading

Anagrams