casse

From French casse (literally “breakage”), from casser (“to break”).^[1]

casse (uncountable)

1. A fault in wine, caused by an enzyme, making it turn from red to brown, or white to yellow, on exposure to air.

• casse-croute

• cases, SCEAs, SECAs

From casser.

• IPA^(key): /kas/ ~ /kɑs/ (/ɑ/ in dialects with this phoneme)

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• Rhymes: -ɑs

casse

1. inflection of casser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

casse m (plural casses)

1. (slang) burglary, break-in

• chien de la casse

casse f (plural casses)

1. breakage (act of breaking)

   Antonym: non-casse

2. (colloquial, figuratively) ruckus; mayhem

   Synonym: grabuge

   Il va y avoir de la casse ! ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. breaker's yard, wreck yard

• non-casse

Borrowed from Italian cassa, from Latin capsa. Doublet of châsse and caisse.

casse f (plural casses)

2. (typography, informatics) case

   sensible à la casse ― case-sensitive

• “casse” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “casse” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “casse” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “casse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• cases, cessa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

casse

1. feminine plural of casso

casse f pl

1. feminine plural of casso

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

casse f pl

1. plural of cassa

• cessa, scesa

casse

1. vocative masculine singular of cassus

• “casse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• casse 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)

From Old Occitan , from Vulgar Latin *cassanus (attested in Medieval Latin as casnus), probably from Gaulish kassanos. Compare French chêne (Old French chesne, chasne), Franco-Provençal châno. See also Aragonese caixico, Spanish quejigo.

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casse m (plural casses)

1. oak

• cassanha
• cassenada
• cassenat
• cassenòla

• casso (Gascony)
• chassanh (Limousin)

• garric
• roire

• case, quase

Northern variant of central Old French chasse, from Latin capsa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasə/

casse oblique singular, f (oblique plural casses, nominative singular casse, nominative plural casses)

1. (Old Northern French) case (box; container, etc.)

• Norman: câsse
• → Middle English: cas
  • English: case
  • → Irish: cás

• casse on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (caisse, supplement)

casse

1. inflection of cassar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative