casita
See also: ĉasita
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish casita.
Noun
casita (plural casitas)
- A small, attached but self-contained house or apartment
- 2007 May 11, Nick Kaye, “Icon Vallarta and Pronghorn”, in New York Times:
- Last fall, construction began on the new spa building with […] about 30 two-bedroom, free-standing casitas.
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Synonyms
- mother-in-law apartment
- granny annexe
Anagrams
- Itasca
Spanish
Etymology
From casa (“house”) + -ita.
- Cognate with Italian casetta
Noun
casita f (plural casitas)
- Diminutive of casa
- small house
- (endearing) house
- mother-in-law apartment
- (in the plural) house (children's activity of pretending to be a family)
Further reading
- “casita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014