canasta
English edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish canasta. The game originates from Uruguay.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
canasta (plural canastas)
- (uncountable, games, card games) A card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the object is to meld groups of the same rank.
- 1951 July, Henry F. Tenney, “Per Stirpes and Not Per Capita: Or, What Your Clients Can Never Tell You”, in ABA Journal, page 492:
- “Do you know something, Fred?” she announced, “I won four dollars and eighty-five cents playing Canasta this afternoon.”
“Canasta!” exclaimed Mr. Grimes, “I didn′t know you could play that silly game.”
- 2004, Gregory Bateson, “15: A Theory of Play and Fantasy”, in Henry Bial, editor, The Performance Studies Reader, page 130:
- Imagine, first, two players who engage in a game of canasta according to a standard set of rules. […] We may imagine, however, that at a certain moment the two canasta players cease to play canasta and start a discussion of the rules.
- 2011, Barry Rigal, Card Games For Dummies, unnumbered page:
- Modern American Canasta is a younger cousin of the game of Canasta I explain here.
- (countable, card games) A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta.
- 1949 December 19, “The Canasta Craze”, in Life (magazine), page 47:
- Groups of seven of a kind are called canastas, and before a player can go out he or his partner must have at least one canasta.
Translations edit
card game
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Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish canasta.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
canasta f (plural canasta's)
- (uncountable) canasta (Uruguayan cardgame)
- (countable) canasta (meld of seven cards in the above game)
Finnish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
canasta
- canasta (card game)
- canasta (meld of seven cards in above)
Declension edit
Inflection of canasta (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | canasta | canastat | ||
genitive | canastan | canastojen | ||
partitive | canastaa | canastoja | ||
illative | canastaan | canastoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | canasta | canastat | ||
accusative | nom. | canasta | canastat | |
gen. | canastan | |||
genitive | canastan | canastojen canastainrare | ||
partitive | canastaa | canastoja | ||
inessive | canastassa | canastoissa | ||
elative | canastasta | canastoista | ||
illative | canastaan | canastoihin | ||
adessive | canastalla | canastoilla | ||
ablative | canastalta | canastoilta | ||
allative | canastalle | canastoille | ||
essive | canastana | canastoina | ||
translative | canastaksi | canastoiksi | ||
abessive | canastatta | canastoitta | ||
instructive | — | canastoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “canasta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish canasta (“basket”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
canasta f (uncountable)
Further reading edit
- “canasta”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish canasta.[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
canasta f (plural canastas)
References edit
- ^ “canasta” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “canasta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin canistrum. Cognate with English canister.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
canasta f (plural canastas)
- basket
- (card games) canasta
- (basketball) basket, hoop
- (Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela) laundry basket, hamper (made of plastic)
Derived terms edit
- canasta de mimbre (“wicker basket”)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “canasta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014