casaca
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French casaque, from Italian casacca. Cognate with English cassock.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
casaca f (plural casaques)
Further reading edit
- “casaca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “casaca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “casaca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “casaca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -akɐ
- Hyphenation: ca‧sa‧ca
Noun edit
casaca f (plural casacas)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “casaca” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Unknown, cognate with French casaque and Italian casacca, possible ultimately from Turkish qazaq. Doublet of cosaco and kazajo.
Noun edit
casaca f (plural casacas)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
casaca f (uncountable)
- (colloquial, Guatemala, El Salvador) lies, bullshit
- Synonym: mentira
- ¡Casaca!
- Lies!
- No creerías la casaca que me dieron.
- You wouldn't believe the lies they told me.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “casaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014