casse
English edit
Etymology edit
From French casse (literally “breakage”), from casser (“to break”).[1]
Noun edit
casse (uncountable)
- A fault in wine, caused by an enzyme, making it turn from red to brown, or white to yellow, on exposure to air.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ “casse”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology 1 edit
From casser.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
casse
- inflection of casser:
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
casse m (plural casses)
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
casse f (plural casses)
- breakage (act of breaking)
- breaker's yard, wreck yard
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Italian cassa, from Latin capsa. Doublet of châsse and caisse.
Noun edit
casse f (plural casses)
- (typography, informatics) case
- sensible à la casse ― case-sensitive
Further reading edit
- “casse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective edit
casse
Participle edit
casse f pl
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
casse f pl
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Adjective edit
casse
References edit
- “casse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- casse 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)
Occitan edit
Etymology edit
From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *cassanus (attested in Medieval Latin as casnus), probably from Gaulish cassanos. Compare French chêne (Old French chesne, chasne), Franco-Provençal châno. See also Aragonese caixico, Spanish quejigo.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
casse m (plural casses)
Derived terms edit
Dialectal variants edit
Synonyms edit
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Northern variant of central Old French chasse, from Latin capsa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
casse oblique singular, f (oblique plural casses, nominative singular casse, nominative plural casses)
- (Old Northern French) case (box; container, etc.)
Descendants edit
References edit
- casse on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (caisse, supplement)
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
casse
- inflection of cassar: