casta
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
casta (uncountable)
- (historical) A hierarchical system of race classification created by Spanish elites in Hispanic America during the eighteenth century.
- 2012, Mary Jo Maynes, Ann Waltner, The Family: A World History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
- Both of these political developments called attention to family lineage. In the Mexican colonial context, casta took on new meanings, referring to all the people of Mexico who were not of “pure” Spanish heritage.
Further reading edit
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
casta f (plural castes)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective edit
casta
Further reading edit
- “casta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “casta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “casta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “casta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Probably from Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), compare English cast.[1] Alternatively from a derivative of Latin castus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
casta f (plural castas)
- species, race or kind
- 1807, anonymous author, Segundo diálogo dos esterqueiros:
- ben dicen alí que cando un home ten un bocado, nunca lle marran amigos. Dou ó Demo a casta deles Si non sirven para máis.
- wisely they say that a man which has food never is short of friends. I send to hell their kind if they are good for nothing else
- quality
- lineage, progeny, offspring, group of people who share the same ancestors
- caste (hereditary class)
Derived terms edit
- ser da casta do Demo (“to be a bad person”, literally “to be one of the Devil's offspring”)
- castizar (“to mate”)
- castizo (“stud pig”)
References edit
- “casta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “casta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “casta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “casta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Participle edit
casta
- past participle of cas
Adjective edit
casta
Declension edit
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | casta | chasta | casta; chasta² | |
Vocative | chasta | casta | ||
Genitive | casta | casta | casta | |
Dative | casta; chasta¹ |
chasta | casta; chasta² | |
Comparative | níos casta | |||
Superlative | is casta |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
casta m sg
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
casta | chasta | gcasta |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “casta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Portuguese casta or Spanish casta, probably of Gothic and Germanic origin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
casta f (plural caste)
- caste
- establishment; the exclusive class of powerful people thought to really rule Italy
Derived terms edit
Adjective edit
casta f sg
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
(Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.ta/, [ˈkäs̠t̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.ta/, [ˈkäst̪ä]
Adjective edit
casta
- inflection of castus:
Adjective edit
castā
References edit
- casta 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)
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: cas‧ta
Etymology 1 edit
Uncertain, possibly from the feminine of casto (“chaste”) (from Old Galician-Portuguese casto, from Latin castus) or from Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (*kastan) or *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), *kastuz.
Noun edit
casta f (plural castas)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective edit
casta
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
- Probably of Germanic origin; compare Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”). Alternatively from a derivative of Latin castus (“chaste”).
- (establishment): Term popularized in Spain in 2014 by the Spanish politician Pablo Iglesias, and his Podemos party to criticize the establishment.[1] Although the term was already used in the 19th and 20th centuries and in 2010 by politicians and journalists.[2]
Noun edit
casta f (plural castas)
- caste
- (of a person) lineage
- (of an animal) breed
- (Spain) establishment; the exclusive class of powerful people thought to really rule Spain
- Synonym: casta política
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
casta
Further reading edit
- “casta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014