casse

casse

See also: cassé and câsse

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

See also

• casse-croute

References

1. “casse”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Anagrams

• SCEAs, cases

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French

Etymology 1

From casser.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑs

Verb

casse

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• casse-noisette
• casse-noix
• casse-pieds
• casse-tête

Noun

casse m (plural casses)

1. (slang) burglary, break-in

Derived terms

• chien de la casse

Noun

casse f (plural casses)

1. breakage (act of breaking)
2. breaker's yard, wreck yard

Etymology 2

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

Noun

casse f (plural casses)

1. (typography, informatics) case

Further reading

• “casse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• cases, cessa

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Italian

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

casse

1. feminine plural of casso

Participle

casse f pl

1. feminine plural of casso

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

casse f pl

1. plural of cassa

Anagrams

• cessa, scesa

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Latin

Adjective

casse

1. vocative masculine singular of cassus

References

• “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)

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Occitan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkase]

• (file)

Noun

casse m (plural casses)

1. oak

Derived terms

• cassanha
• cassenada
• cassenat
• cassenòla

Dialectal variants

• casso (Gascon)
• chassanh (Limousin)

Synonyms

• garric
• roire

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Old French

Alternative forms

• case, quase

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasə/

Noun

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

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

Descendants

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

References

• 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)

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Portuguese

Verb

casse

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