casaca
Catalan
Etymology
From French casaque. Cognate with English cassock.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /kəˈza.kə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /kaˈza.ka/
Noun
casaca f (plural casaques)
- dress coat
- frock coat
Further reading
- “casaca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “casaca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “casaca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “casaca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈza.kɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈza.ka/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈza.kɐ/
- Rhymes: -akɐ
- Hyphenation: ca‧sa‧ca
Noun
casaca f (plural casacas)
- dress coat
Derived terms
- vira-casaca
- virar a casaca
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈsaka/ [kaˈsa.ka]
- Rhymes: -aka
- Syllabification: ca‧sa‧ca
Etymology 1
Unknown, cognate with French casaque and Italian casacca, possible ultimately from Turkish qazaq.
Noun
casaca f (plural casacas)
- (Spain, Peru) jacket
- Synonyms: chaqueta, (El Salvador) chumpa
Noun
casaca f (uncountable)
- (colloquial, Guatemala, El Salvador) lies, bullshit
- ¡Casaca!
- Lies!
- No creerías la casaca que me dieron.
- You wouldn't believe the lies they told me.
- Synonym: mentira
Further reading
- “casaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014