Italian

Adjective

casso m ‎(feminine singular cassa, masculine plural cassi, feminine plural casse)

1. (obsolete) useless, fruitless
2. (obsolete) deprived, devoid

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle form of cassare ‎(“to erase, take out”), from Vulgar Latin *cassare ‎(“to nullify, void”), derived from Latin cassus.

Adjective

casso m ‎(feminine singular cassa, masculine plural cassi, feminine plural casse)

1. (obsolete) having been erased, gone, destroyed

Etymology 3

From Latin capsus ‎(“the body of a carriage”) (cfr. capsa ‎(“box”)).

Noun

casso m ‎(plural cassi)

1. (obsolete) The concave area located below the chest.
2. (obsolete, by extension) thorax

Etymology 4

Inflected form of the verb cassare.

Verb

casso

1. first-person singular present indicative of cassare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.soː/

Etymology 1

From cadō ‎(“fall”) +‎ -tō ‎(verb-forming suffix).

Verb

cassō ‎(present infinitive cassāre, perfect active cassāvī); first conjugation, no passive

1. I totter, I begin to fall

Inflection

Derived terms

• cassābundus

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Adjective

cassō

1. dative masculine singular of cassus
2. dative neuter singular of cassus
3. ablative masculine singular of cassus
4. ablative neuter plural 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “casso”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• “cassō” on page 308/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Portuguese

Verb

casso

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of cassar