casso
See also: Casso and cassò
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkas.so/
- Rhymes: -asso
- Hyphenation: càs‧so
Etymology 1
From Latin cassus (“hollow”, “empty”).
Adjective
casso (feminine cassa, masculine plural cassi, feminine plural casse) (literary, obsolete)
- useless; fruitless
- Synonyms: futile, inutile, vano
- Antonym: utile
- 1516, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso [Raging Roland], Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, Canto XXI, page 96:
- Non fu gia l'altro colpo uano, e caſſo; ¶ roppe lo ſcudo: e ſi la ſpalla preſe ¶ che la forò da l'uno a l'altro lato […]
- The other blow was not vain and fruitless: ¶ it broke the shield, and hit the shoulder so ¶ that it pierced through it […]
- deprived; devoid
- Synonyms: privo, sfornito
- Antonyms: dotato, fornito
- expelled or fired
- dejected; disheartened
Etymology 2
Perfect passive participle form of cassare (“to erase, take out”), from Vulgar Latin *cassāre (“to nullify, void”), derived from Latin cassus.
Participle
casso (feminine cassa, masculine plural cassi, feminine plural casse)
- (obsolete) past participle of cassare
- erased, gone, destroyed
- (figuratively) fired
Synonyms
- (erased): cancellato, distrutto, perduto
- (fired): licenziato
Etymology 3
From Latin capsus (“the body of a carriage”) (cfr. capsa (“box”)).
Noun
casso m (plural cassi)
- (obsolete) ribcage
- (obsolete, by extension) thorax
- Synonym: torace
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
casso
- first-person singular present indicative of cassare
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.soː/, [ˈkäs̠ːoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.so/, [ˈkäsːo]
Etymology 1
From cadō (“fall”) + -tō (verb-forming suffix).
Verb
cassō (present infinitive cassāre, perfect active cassāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- (Late Latin) I totter, I begin to fall
Conjugation
| Conjugation of cassō (first conjugation, no supine stem, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | cassō | cassās | cassat | cassāmus | cassātis | cassant |
| imperfect | cassābam | cassābās | cassābat | cassābāmus | cassābātis | cassābant | |
| future | cassābō | cassābis | cassābit | cassābimus | cassābitis | cassābunt | |
| perfect | cassāvī | cassāvistī | cassāvit | cassāvimus | cassāvistis | cassāvērunt, cassāvēre | |
| pluperfect | cassāveram | cassāverās | cassāverat | cassāverāmus | cassāverātis | cassāverant | |
| future perfect | cassāverō | cassāveris | cassāverit | cassāverimus | cassāveritis | cassāverint | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | cassem | cassēs | casset | cassēmus | cassētis | cassent |
| imperfect | cassārem | cassārēs | cassāret | cassārēmus | cassārētis | cassārent | |
| perfect | cassāverim | cassāverīs | cassāverit | cassāverīmus | cassāverītis | cassāverint | |
| pluperfect | cassāvissem | cassāvissēs | cassāvisset | cassāvissēmus | cassāvissētis | cassāvissent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | cassā | — | — | cassāte | — |
| future | — | cassātō | cassātō | — | cassātōte | cassantō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | cassāre | cassāvisse | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | cassāns | — | — | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| cassandī | cassandō | cassandum | cassandō | — | — | ||
Derived terms
- cassābundus
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
cassō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of cassus
References
- “casso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- casso 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)
- casso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “cassō” on page 308/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
Portuguese
Verb
casso
- first-person singular present indicative of cassar