casco

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

• Cocas, SACCO, cocas, socca

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

Etymology 1

Attested since the 13th century. Back-formation from cascar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasko̝/

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 hoofs, 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

• casquete
• cascón

Related terms

• casca
• cascar

References

• “casco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “casco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “casco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “casco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “casco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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 or Spanish casco (“helmet”, figuratively, “protection”, or “hull of a ship”, used in connection with injuries sustained while travelling).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: cas‧co
• Rhymes: -koː

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

References

Further reading

• casco in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). 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

• Sacco, Scoca, cosca, sacco

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

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

• cascos de rolha

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

casco

1. first-person singular present indicative of cascar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasko/

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -asko
• Syllabification: cas‧co

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• casqui- (combining form)

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

Related terms

Descendants

• → Catalan: casc
• → Dutch: casco
• → English: casco
• → German: Kasko
• → Italian: casco
• → Middle French: casque
  • French: casque (see there for further descendants)
  • → English: cask
• → Piedmontese: casch
• → Tagalog: kasko

Etymology 2

Verb

casco

1. first-person singular present indicative of cascar

Further reading

• “casco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• cacos
• cocas