casa
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish casa. Doublet of chez.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑːsə/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːsə
Noun
casa (plural casas)
- (slang) house
- 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!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
- Chuffy: WHAT? No, no, no, no, no. My casa is your casa, what?
- Get out of my casa!
- 1896, Bret Harte, Stories in Light and Shadow
Anagrams
- A.A.C.S., AACS, AACs, ACAS, ACAs, ASAC, ASCA, CAAs
Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin casa.
Noun
casa f (plural casas)
- house
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin casa.
Noun
casa f (plural cases)
- house
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈka.zə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈka.za/
- Rhymes: -aza
Etymology 1
From Latin casa.
Noun
casa f (plural cases)
- house
Derived terms
- a casa d'un penjat no hi anomenis cordes
- caseta
- casolà
- mestressa de casa
Related terms
- casella
- casera
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
casa
- third-person singular present indicative form of casar
- second-person singular imperative form of casar
Further reading
- “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, 2023
- “casa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Corsican
![](Images/wiktionary/Frassety_-_Casa_di_i_Maestri.JPG.webp)
Etymology
From Latin casa. Cognates include Italian casa and Spanish casa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈka.za/
- Hyphenation: ca‧sa
Noun
casa f (plural case)
- house
- Synonym: domu
References
- “casa” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.za/
Verb
casa
- third-person singular past historic of caser
Galician
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![](Images/wiktionary/Casa_Torre_de_Ceta_y_Arines.jpg.webp)
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Alternative forms
- cas
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese casa, from Latin casa.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈkas̺ɐ]
Noun
casa f (plural casas)
- house
- structure serving as an abode of human beings
- farmhouse
- noble family; lineage
- Casa de Andrade ― House of Andrade
- Synonym: dinastía
- company, firm
- home (one’s own dwelling place)
- Synonyms: fogar, lar
- (board games) a cell which may be occupied by a piece (such as a square in a chessboard)
Usage notes
When preceding the preposition de the apocopated form cas, rather than casa, is frequently used.
Derived terms
- casa baixa
- Casabranca
- casa cuberta
- Casa de Naia
- casa do concello
- Casa do Monte
- Casa do Vento
- Casa Grande
- Casagrande
- casa grande
- casa indiana
- Casa Lousada
- Casanova
- Casa Nova
- Casas Baratas
- Casas do Monte
- Casas Novas
- Casasoá
- Casasoa
- Casas Vellas
- casa terrea
- casa torre
- Casavella
- caseiro
- Casela
- Caselas
- caseño
- caseta
Related terms
- casal
- casarío
- casil
References
- “casa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “casa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “casa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “casa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “casa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈka.sa/
Noun
casa (plural casas)
- house
- home
Irish
Pronunciation
- (Munster, Aran) IPA(key): /ˈkɑsˠə/
- (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkasˠə/
Adjective
casa
- nominative/vocative/dative and strong genitive plural of cas
Verb
casa
- inflection of cas:
- present subjunctive analytic
- (obsolete) second-person singular present indicative
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
casa | chasa | gcasa |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Italian
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Etymology
From Latin casa (“house”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈka.za/, (traditional) /ˈka.sa/[1]
Audio (Northern) (file) - Rhymes: -aza, (traditional) -asa
- Hyphenation: cà‧sa
Noun
casa f (plural case, diminutive casìna or casétta or casettìna, augmentative casóna or casóne m, pejorative casàccia, endearing-derogatory casùccia)
- house
- Synonyms: abitazione, dimora
- home
- family, dynasty, descent, stock, lineage, birth, origin
- Synonyms: casato, stirpe, dinastia
- è di casa nobile ― he is of noble descent
- homeland, fatherland
- Synonym: patria
- (figurative) one's customs
- A casa mia queste cose non si fanno.
- We don't do these things where I come from.
- (board games) square
- Synonym: casella
- structure for public use
- structure for a collective or plurality or people
- casa rifugio ― safe house
- casa da gioco ― casino (literally, “game house”)
- place of religious gathering
- Synonyms: chiesa, convento, monastero
- casa di Dio ― house of God
- casa religiosa ― religious institution
- 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”)
- company, firm, shop
- Synonyms: ditta, azienda, società
- casa editrice ― publishing house
- casa di spedizioni ― shipments company
- (colloquial, euphemistic) brothel, whorehouse
- structure for a collective or plurality or people
Derived terms
- casa barca
- Casa Bianca
- casa colonica
- casa costruttrice
- casa da gioco
- casa d'appuntamenti
- casa dello studente
- casa di bambole
- casa di correzione
- casa di cura
- casa di moda
- casa di pena
- casa di piacere
- casa di riposo
- casa discografica
- casa di tolleranza
- casa, dolce casa
- casa editrice
- casa famiglia
- casa farmaceutica
- casa generalizia
- casa madre
- casa popolare
- casa reale
- casina
- fatto in casa
- padrona di casa
- vino della casa
Related terms
- casale
- casalinga
- casalingo
- casamatta
- casamento
- casareccio
- casata
- casato
- caseggiato
- casino
- casolare
- casotto
- rincasare
References
- casa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
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
Latin
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.sa/, [ˈkäs̠ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.sa/, [ˈkäːs̬ä]
- (Classical)
Audio (file)
Noun
casa f (genitive casae); first declension
- hut, cottage, cabin
- Synonyms: aedēs, domus, domicilium, habitātiō, mānsiō, sēdēs, tēctum
- rural property, small farm
- (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) dwelling, residence, house
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | casa | casae |
Genitive | casae | casārum |
Dative | casae | casīs |
Accusative | casam | casās |
Ablative | casā | casīs |
Vocative | casa | casae |
Derived terms
- casāles
- casālis
- casānicus
- casāria
- casārius
- casella
- casellula
- casula
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Aromanian: casã
- Istro-Romanian: cåsĕ
- Romanian: casă
- Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: casa
- Asturian: casa
- Mirandese: casa
- Old Portuguese: casa
- Fala: casa
- Galician: casa, cas
- Portuguese: casa, caza
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: kasa, kaza
- Indo-Portuguese: casa
- Kabuverdianu: kasa
- Karipúna Creole French: kaz
- Kristang: kaza
- Macanese: casa
- Papiamentu: kas (partly)
- Old Spanish: casa
- Spanish: casa
- → Cebuano: kasa
- → English: casa
- → Papiamentu: kas (partly)
- Spanish: casa
- Gallo-Italic:
- Emilian: chèṡa, cà
- Ligurian: câza
- Lombard: cà
- Piedmontese: ca
- Romagnol: ca
- Sammarinese: chêsa, ca’
- Venetian: caxa, ca’
- Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: casa, ca
- Occitan: casa, cò
- Old French: chiese, chese
- French: chez
- → English: chez
- ⇒ Norman: caisèye, Norman: quieux (preposition), Norman: ciez (Coutance, preposition)
- French: chez
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Dalmatian: cuosa
- Istriot: casa
- Italian: casa, ca’
- Sicilian: casa
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: cjase, čhase
- Ladin: cèsa, cesa
- Romansch: chasa
- Sardinian:
- càsa
- → Interlingua: casa (and from Italian and Spanish)
References
- “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
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡sasa/
Noun
casa
- inflection of cas:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative dual
Macanese
Noun
casa (plural casa-casa)
- house
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin casa.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
casa f (plural cases)
- house
Old Spanish
Alternative forms
- cassa
Etymology
From Latin casa (“cottage”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkaza/
Noun
casa f (plural casas)
- house
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 42v.
- dixo eliſeus q́t fare di q́ as entu caſſa. la maceba nulla coſa en caſa. ſi nó una oliera de olio
- Elisha said, “What can I do for you? Tell [me], what do you have in your house?” [She said,] “Your maidservant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”
- Idem, f. 80r.
- por aq́l logar dixo nŕo ſeńor a ieremias, ve a caſa del orcero e ẏ fablare cótigo.
- Around that place Our Lord said to Jeremiah, “Go to the potter's house, and I will speak to you there.”
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 42v.
Descendants
- Spanish: casa
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈka.zɐ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -azɐ
- Hyphenation: ca‧sa
Etymology 1
From Old Portuguese casa, from Latin casa (“cottage”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net; hut, shed”).
![](Images/wiktionary/Ein_typisches_Haus.jpg.webp)
Alternative forms
- caza (obsolete)
Noun
casa f (plural casas)
- house
- structure serving as an abode of human beings
- 2005, J. K. Rowling, 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.
-
- building or institution serving as something other than residence, such as a shop
- Casa de carnes. ― Butcher’s shop.
- noble family
- Synonym: dinastia
- Casa de Bragança ― House of Braganza
- structure serving as an abode of human beings
- home (one’s own dwelling place)
- Synonym: lar
- Estou em casa. ― I'm at home.
- (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.
- 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.
- (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.
Derived terms
- casa civil
- casa da mãe Joana
- casa de banho
- casa de câmara e cadeia
- casa de campo
- casa de cômodos
- casa de correção
- casa de despejo
- casa de orates
- casa noturna
- casa onde não há pão, todos ralham e ninguém tem razão
- casa roubada, trancas à porta
- casão
- casarão
- casaréu
- casebre
- caseiro
- casinha (diminutive)
- casita
- casona (augmentative)
- casucha
- em casa de ferreiro, o espeto é de pau
- ô de casa
- quem casa quer casa
- santa casa
- sentir-se em casa
- ser de casa
Descendants
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: kasa, kaza
- Indo-Portuguese: casa
- Kabuverdianu: kasa
- Karipúna Creole French: kaz
- Kristang: kaza
- Macanese: casa
- Papiamentu: kas (partly)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
casa
- inflection of casar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:casar.
Further reading
- “casa” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “casa” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “casa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “casa” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
- “casa” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “casa” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Noun
casa
- definite nominative/accusative singular of casă
Etymology 2
From French casser.
Verb
a casa (third-person singular present casează, past participle casat) 1st conj.
- to annul a court decision
Conjugation
infinitive | a casa | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | casând | ||||||
past participle | casat | ||||||
number | singular | plural | |||||
person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | casez | casezi | casează | casăm | casați | casează | |
imperfect | casam | casai | casa | casam | casați | casau | |
simple perfect | casai | casași | casă | casarăm | casarăți | casară | |
pluperfect | casasem | casaseși | casase | casaserăm | casaserăți | casaseră | |
subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | să casez | să casezi | să caseze | să casăm | să casați | să caseze | |
imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
affirmative | casează | casați | |||||
negative | nu casa | nu casați |
Romansch
Alternative forms
- chasa (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader)
- tgea, tgeasa (Sutsilvan)
- tgesa, tga (Surmiran)
- chesa (Puter)
Etymology
From Latin casa.
Noun
casa f (plural casas)
- (Sursilvan) house
Sicilian
Etymology
From Latin casa.
Noun
casa f (plural casi)
- house
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkasa/ [ˈka.sa]
Audio (Bolivia) (file) Audio (Latin America) (file) - Rhymes: -asa
- Syllabification: ca‧sa
- Homophone: (Latin America) caza
Etymology 1
From Latin casa (“cottage”).
![](Images/wiktionary/Ein_typisches_Haus.jpg.webp)
Noun
casa f (plural casas)
- house
Derived terms
- (diminutives): casilla, casita
- (augmentatives): caserón, casona, casota
- (pejoratives): casucha
Derived terms
- a casa (“home, homewards”, adverb)
- alegría de la casa
- ama de casa
- amo de casa
- caérsele la casa encima
- Casa Blanca
- casa consistorial
- casa cuna
- casa cural
- casa de bolsa
- casa de cambio
- casa de campo
- casa de citas
- casa de Dios
- casa de empeño
- casa de fieras
- casa de huéspedes
- casa de juego
- casa de locos
- casa de moneda
- casa de putas
- casa de vecindad
- casa discográfica
- casa embrujada
- casa encantada
- casa mía, casa mía, por pequeña que tú seas, me pareces una abadía
- casa móvil
- casa móvil
- casa paterna
- casar
- casa real
- casa rodante
- casa rural
- casería
- caserío
- casero
- caseta
- casino
- criada de casa
- de entrecasa
- de la casa
- echar la casa por la ventana; tirar la casa por la ventana
- el casado casa quiere
- empezar la casa por el tejado
- en casa (“at home, home”, adverb)
- en casa de herrero, cuchara de palo
- invita la casa
- marca de casa
- mi casa es su casa, mi casa es tu casa
- mi casa y mi hogar cien doblas val
- para andar por casa
- por la casa (“on the house”)
- zapatilla de estar por casa
Descendants
- → Cebuano: kasa
- → English: casa
- → Papiamentu: kas (partly)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
casa
- inflection of casar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
See also
- hogar
- lar
Further reading
- “casa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Venetian
Etymology
Compare Italian cassa
Noun
casa f (plural case)
- case
- cash desk
- fund
- coffin
Descendants
- →⇒ Cimbrian: kèssle
See also
- caxa