cassa

See also: càssa

Catalan

Etymology

From a pre-Roman root *kattia.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cassa f (plural casses)

1. ladle

Derived terms

• casseta
• cassó
• cassola

Further reading

• “cassa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.sa/

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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.

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

Derived terms

• cassa acustica (“loudspeaker”)
• Cassa del Mezzogiorno (“fund to develop the South of Italy”)
• cassa da morto (“coffin”)
• 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

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 forms

• 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 forms

• 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