cassa

See also: càssa

Catalan

Etymology

From a pre-Roman root *kattia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈka.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈka.sa]

Noun

cassa f (plural casses)

1. ladle

Derived terms

• casseta
• cassó
• cassola

Further reading

• “cassa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.sa/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Verb

cassa

1. third-person singular past historic of casser

Anagrams

• casas

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkas.sa/
• Rhymes: -assa
• Hyphenation: càs‧sa

Etymology 1

From Latin capsa. Doublet of capsa.

Noun

cassa f (plural casse, diminutive cassétta or cassétto m, augmentative cassóne m, pejorative cassàccia)

1. case, crate, trunk
2. box

   Synonym: scatola

3. cash register, cash desk
4. fund (of money)
5. drum (music)

Derived terms

• cassa acustica (“loudspeaker”)
• cassa da morto (“coffin”)
• Cassa del Mezzogiorno (“fund to develop the South of Italy”)
• cassa di risonanza (“echo chamber”)
• cassa di risparmio (“savings bank”)
• cassa toracica (“thorax”)

Descendants

• → Belarusian: каса (kasa)
• → Bulgarian: каса (kasa)
• → Crimean Tatar: kassa
• → Czech: kasa
• → Danish: kasse
  • → Faroese: kassi
  • → Icelandic: kassi
• → Dutch: kassa
  • → Indonesian: kasa
• → Finnish: kassa
• → French: casse
• → German: Kasse, Kassa
• → Greek: κάσα (kása)
• → Macedonian: каса (kasa)
• → Norwegian: kasse
• → Ottoman Turkish: قاصه (kasa)
  • Turkish: kasa
  • → Armenian: քացա (kʻacʻa)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ка̀са

    Latin script: kàsa

• → Plautdietsch: Kauss
• → Polish: kasa
• → Swedish: kassa
• → Russian: касса (kassa)
• → Ukrainian: каса (kasa)

Further reading

• cassa in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

cassa

1. feminine singular of casso

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

cassa f sg

1. feminine singular of casso

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cassa

1. inflection of cassare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin capsa.

Noun

cassa f (plural casses)

1. case, crate
2. cash register, cash desk
3. fund (of money)

Latin

Adjective

cassa

1. inflection of cassus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative neuter plural

Adjective

cassā

1. ablative feminine singular of cassus

References

• "cassa", 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)

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasa/

Noun

cassa f (plural cassas)

1. alternative form of casa, house
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 42v:

     Lidiaron conel Reẏ de moab deſbaratoron le. e aueno les aſſi cũ dixo el ppħa entornos cadauno aſſu caſſa.

     They fought with the king of Moab [and] they annihilated him. And it happened just as the prophet had said, and each one returned to his house.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀘𑀲𑁆𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• चस्स (Devanagari script)
• চস্স (Bengali script)
• චස‍්ස (Sinhalese script)
• စဿ or ၸသ်သ (Burmese script)
• จสฺส or จัสสะ (Thai script)
• ᨧᩔ (Tai Tham script)
• ຈສ຺ສ or ຈັສສະ (Lao script)
• ចស្ស (Khmer script)
• 𑄌𑄥𑄴𑄥 (Chakma script)

Alternative scripts

• cāssa (Latin script)
• 𑀘𑀸𑀲𑁆𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• चास्स (Devanagari script)
• চাস্স (Bengali script)
• චාස‍්ස (Sinhalese script)
• စာဿ or ၸႃသ်သ (Burmese script)
• จาสฺส or จาสสะ (Thai script)
• ᨧᩣᩔ (Tai Tham script)
• ຈາສ຺ສ or ຈາສສະ (Lao script)
• ចាស្ស (Khmer script)
• 𑄌𑄂𑄥𑄴𑄥 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Contraction of ca assa.

Contraction

cassa

1. and [there] were (optative mood)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.sɐ/

• Rhymes: -asɐ
• Homophone: caça
• Hyphenation: cas‧sa

Verb

cassa

1. inflection of cassar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative