English

Proper noun

Casa

1. A town in Arkansas.

English

Noun

casa ‎(plural casas)

1. (slang) house

   Get out of my casa!

   • Francis Bret Harte

     I saw that Enriquez had made no attempt to modernize the old casa, and that even the garden was left in its lawless native luxuriance.

See also

• mi casa es su casa
• mi casa es tu casa

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin casa.

Noun

casa f ‎(plural cases)

1. house

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin casa.

Noun

casa f ‎(plural cases)

1. house

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Provençal [Term?], from Latin casa.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈka.zə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈka.zə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.za/
• Rhymes: -aza

Noun

casa f ‎(plural cases)

1. house

Derived terms

• casolà

Verb

casa

1. third-person singular present indicative form of casar
2. second-person singular imperative form of casar

French

Verb

casa

1. third-person singular past historic of caser

Galician

Etymology

From Latin casa.

Noun

casa f ‎(plural casas)

1. house

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.sa/

Noun

casa ‎(plural casas)

1. house
2. home

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑsˠə/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkasˠə/

Adjective

casa

1. nominative and vocative and dative and strong genitive plural of cas

Verb

casa

1. present subjunctive analytic of cas

Mutation

Italian

Etymology

From Latin casa ‎(“house”).

Pronunciation

• (Northern Italy) IPA^(key): /ˈka.za/
• (Central and Southern Italy, standard) IPA^(key): /ˈka.sa/

Noun

casa f ‎(plural case)

1. house
2. home
3. shop
4. (board games) square
5. Family, dynasty, descent, extraction, stock, lineage, birth, origin, race (not human “race”, but meaning the preceding words).
6. Company, firm.

Synonyms

• abitazione
• dimora

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Latin

Etymology 1

Possibly from either Proto-Indo-European *kat- ‎(“to link or weave together; chain, net”) (compare Latin catena ‎(“chain”)), or Proto-Indo-European *ket- ‎(“hut, shed”) (compare Old English heaþor ‎(“restraint, confinement, enclosure, prison”), Avestan [script needed] ‎(kata, “chamber”), Mazanderani کَت ‎(kat, “wall”)), likely through borrowing from another Indo-European language rather than inheritance.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.sa/

Noun

casa f ‎(genitive casae); first declension

1. hut, cottage, house.
2. vocative singular of casa

casā f

1. ablative singular of casa

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

References

• casa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• casa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CASA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “casa”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• casa in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

Etymology 2

Inflected form of cāsus ‎(“fallen”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.sa/

Participle

cāsa

1. nominative feminine singular of cāsus
2. nominative neuter plural of cāsus
3. accusative neuter plural of cāsus
4. vocative feminine singular of cāsus
5. vocative neuter plural of cāsus

cāsā

1. ablative feminine singular of cāsus

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sasa]

Noun

casa

1. genitive singular of cas
2. nominative dual of cas
3. accusative dual of cas

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Provençal [Term?], from Latin casa.

Noun

casa f (plural cases)

1. house

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin casam, accusative of casa ‎(“cottage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈka.za]

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

1. house
   • c. 1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 80r. col. 1.

     […] dixo nŕo ſénnor a ieremias ue a caſa del orcero e ẏ fablare cótigo.

     […] Our Lord said to Jeremiah, go to the potter's house, and I will speak to you there.

Descendants

• Spanish: casa

Portuguese

casa

Alternative forms

• caza (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese casa, from Latin casa ‎(“cottage”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kat- ‎(“to link or weave together; chain, net; hut, shed”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.zɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.za/, /ˈka.zɐ/
• Hyphenation: ca‧sa
• Rhymes: -aza

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

1. house (structure serving as an abode of human beings)
   • 2005, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Rocco, page 135:

     Ele agora tem uma casa nas montanhas, foi Dumbledore que arranjou, uma bela caverna.

     He now has a house in the mountains, Dumbledore is who provided it, a beautiful cave.

   Aquela casa é grande.‎ ― That house is big.

2. home (one’s own dwelling place)

   Estou em casa.‎ ― I'm at home.

3. (in compounds) shop (establishment that sells goods or service)

   Casa de carnes.‎ ― Butcher’s shop.

4. (board games) a cell which may be occupied by a piece (such as a square in a chessboard)
5. a digit position

   No número 12345, o algarismo 3 ocupa a casa das centenas.‎

   In the number 12345, the digit 3 is in the hundreds’ place.

6. house (noble family)

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:casa.

Synonyms

• (home): lar
• (shop): loja

Derived terms

• casinha, casebre, casita, casucha, casinhola, casinholo, casinhota, casinhoto (diminutives)
• casão, casona, casarão, casaréu (augmentatives)

Verb

casa

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of casar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of casar

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:casar.

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: kasa

Romanian

Noun

casa f

1. definite singular nominative and accusative form of casă.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) chasa
• (Sutsilvan) tgea, tgeasa
• (Surmiran) tgesa, tga
• (Puter) chesa

Etymology

From Latin casa.

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

1. (Sursilvan) house

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin casa

Noun

casa f (plural casi)

1. house

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin casa ‎(“cottage”).

Pronunciation

• (z-s distinction, seseo merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkasa/
• (ceceo merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkaθa/
• Homophone: caza (seseo and ceceo dialects)

Noun

casa f ‎(plural casas)

1. house

Derived terms

• (diminutives): casilla, casita
• (augmentatives): casona, casota
• (pejoratives): casucha
• casa de bolsa
• casa de cambio
• casa de citas
• casa de empeño
• casa mía, casa mía, por pequeña que tú seas, me pareces una abadía
• casar
• casino
• casería
• caserío
• casero
• caseta
• el casado casa quiere
• en casa de herrero, cuchara de palo
• mi casa es su casa, mi casa es tu casa

Verb

casa

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of casar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of casar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of casar.

See also

• hogar
• lar

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian cassa

Noun

casa f (plural case)

1. case
2. cash desk
3. fund
4. coffin

See also

• caxa