casa

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish casa. Doublet of chez.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːsə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːsə

Noun

casa (plural casas)

1. (slang) house

   Get out of my casa!

   • 1896, Bret Harte, Stories in Light and Shadow:

     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.

   • 1991 May 12, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:

     Chuffy: WHAT? No, no, no, no, no. My casa is your casa, what?

Anagrams

• A.A.C.S., AACS, AACs, ACAS, ACAs, ASAC, ASCA, CAAs

Etymology

From Latin casa.

Noun

casa f (plural casas)

1. house

Etymology

From Latin casa.

Noun

casa f (plural cases)

1. house
2. household, family (that live together)
3. inner space of shoes (especially clog's)
4. stable

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈka.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈka.za]
• Rhymes: -aza

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin casa.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Further reading

• “casa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “casa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “casa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “casa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Etymology

From Latin casa. Cognates include Italian casa and Spanish casa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.za/
• Hyphenation: ca‧sa

Noun

casa f (plural case)

1. house

   Synonym: domu

References

• “casa” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Noun

casa

1. house

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.za/

Verb

casa

1. third-person singular past historic of caser

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasa/ [ˈkɑ.s̺ɐ]
• Rhymes: -asa
• Hyphenation: ca‧sa

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese casa, from Latin casa.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.sa/

Noun

casa (plural casas)

1. house
2. home

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

casa

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

Verb

casa

1. inflection of cas:
   1. present subjunctive analytic
   2. (obsolete) second-person singular present indicative

Mutation