carcassa
Catalan
Etymology
From Italian carcassa.
Noun
carcassa f (plural carcasses)
- carcass
Italian
Etymology
Likely from carcasso, obsolete variant of turcasso (“quiver”). Compare the now obsolete “bomb” sense.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /karˈkas.sa/
- Rhymes: -assa
- Hyphenation: car‧càs‧sa
Noun
carcassa f (plural carcasse)
- carcass
- (by extension) hulk, shell
- (by extension) framework, skeleton
- (obsolete) a kind of bomb made of an iron framing covered with cloth, filled with flammable materials
- Hypernym: bomba
Further reading
- carcassa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana