cascada

See also: cascadă

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cascada or directly from Italian cascata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəsˈka.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kasˈka.ða]

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Noun

cascada f (plural cascades)

1. waterfall

Participle

cascada f sg

1. feminine singular of cascat

References

• “cascada” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

cascada

1. third-person singular past historic of cascader

Anagrams

• saccada

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kaˈska.da]

Noun

cascada f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cascadă

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kasˈkada/ [kasˈka.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: cas‧ca‧da

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), based on Latin cāsus (“fallen”).

Noun

cascada f (plural cascadas)

1. waterfall, cascade

   Synonym: catarata

Derived terms

• en cascada

 

Etymology 2

Adjective

cascada f sg

1. feminine singular of cascado

Participle

cascada f sg

1. feminine singular of cascado

Further reading

• “cascada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16