cas

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæʒ/
• Rhymes: -æʒ

Adjective

cas (comparative more cas, superlative most cas)

1. (informal) Abbreviation of casual.

Anagrams

• A/Cs, ACS, ACs, ASC, CSA, SAC, SCA, Sac, a/cs, acs, sac

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkas]
• Rhymes: -as

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cāsus (“case”).

Noun

cas m (plural casos)

1. case (event, situation, or fact)

Derived terms

• estar al cas
• fer cas
• per si de cas
• per si un cas

Related terms

• casual
• casuista

Etymology 2

Contraction

cas

1. Contraction of ca es.

Further reading

• “cas” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cas” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Drehu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑs/

Numeral

cas

1. one

References

• Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French cas, borrowed from Latin cāsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka/ ~ /kɑ/
• Rhymes: -ɑ

Noun

cas m (plural cas)

1. case, situation

   dans la très grande majorité des cas ― in the great majority of cases

2. (medicine) case
3. (law) case

   cas clinique ― clinical case

4. (grammar) case

Derived terms

Further reading

• “cas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• ASC
• sac

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cas (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), proclitic form of casa (“house”) in some adverbial phrases.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkas/

Noun

cas f (invariable)

1. house; chez
   • 19th century, folk-song:

   Na cas do ferreiro, coitelo de pau (proverb) ― At the smith's house, knife of wood

Usage notes

When preceding the preposition de this proclitic form, rather than casa, is frequently used.

Derived terms

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cas”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cas d”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cas”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cas”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cas”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay cas, from English charge (“fast ground attack; electric charge”). Cognate of Malay caj.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃas]
• Hyphenation: cas
• Rhymes: -as

Noun

cas (first-person possessive casku, second-person possessive casmu, third-person possessive casnya)

1. A type of hand game

Derived terms

Verb

cas

1. (colloquial) to charge, to add energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery).

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Tetum: cas

Further reading

• “cas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cass (“curly, curly-haired”), from Proto-Celtic *kassos (“curly, twisted, woven”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /kɑsˠ/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /kasˠ/

Adjective

cas (genitive singular masculine cais, genitive singular feminine caise, plural casa, comparative caise)

1. twisted, winding; curly
2. complicated, intricate
3. twisty, devious

Declension

Verb

cas (present analytic casann, future analytic casfaidh, verbal noun casadh, past participle casta) (transitive, intransitive)

1. twist
2. turn
3. wind
4. (with ar, thar) twist, wind, wrap (something) around (something else)
5. (voice, music, idiomatic) sing, play (a song, tune)

   Tá sé ag casadh amhráin. ― He’s singing a song.

6. return
7. (with le)
   1. reproach with
   2. attempt
9. (with ar, do, le) meet with

   Casadh an fear orm. ― I met the man.

   Cathain a casfar ort í? ― When will you meet her?

10. (with chuig, ag) happen to have

Conjugation

• Alternative verbal noun: castáil (Cois Fharraige)

Synonyms

• cor

Derived terms

• barrchas (“ringleted”)
• cas ar, do, le (“to meet, meet with”)
• caschlár (“turntable”)
• castóir (“winder, turner; reproacher, reviler”)

Noun

cas m (genitive singular casta, nominative plural castaí)

1. Alternative form of casadh

Mutation

Further reading

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 67

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *časъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sas/

Noun

cas m inan

1. time (inevitable passing of events)

Declension

Derived terms

• casnik

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “cas”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “cas”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Malay

Etymology

From English charge. Doublet of caj.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃas/
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃas, -as

Noun

cas

1. charge
   1. (electromagnetism, chemistry) an electric charge.

      Synonym: muatan (Indonesian)

Descendants

• → Indonesian: cas

Further reading

• “cas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French cas, from Latin casus (“fall”).

Noun

cas (plural cass)

1. case (event, happening)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Contraction

cas f pl

1. (colloquial) Contraction of com as (“with the (feminine plural)”): feminine plural of cos

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cos, from Proto-Celtic *koxsā, from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs-eh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰas/

Noun

cas f (dative singular cois, genitive singular coise, plural casan)

1. leg
2. foot

   Tha e ochd mìle air cois. ― It is eight miles on foot.

3. handle

Derived terms

Adjective

cas (comparative caise)

1. steep

Mutation

Spanish

Etymology

Named by indigenous peoples in Costa Rica (Chibchan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkas/ [ˈkas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: cas

Noun

cas m (plural cases)

1. the fruit of a very tart species of guava

   Synonyms: guayaba de cas, guayaba de Costa Rica, guayaba agria

2. the tree that bears those fruits, Psidium friedrichsthalianum

References

• Robertiello, Jack: Guava/Xalxocotl/Aracu/Guayaba, cited in Américas, Volumes 42-44 (1990), p. 58

Further reading

• “cas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh and Old Welsh cas, from Proto-Brythonic *kas.

Adjective

cas (feminine singular cas, plural cas, equative cased, comparative casach, superlative casaf)

1. hateful, nasty

   Mae’n gas gyda fi gwrw. ― I hate beer. (literally, “Beer is hateful with me.”)

2. unpleasant, difficult
3. averse to

Derived terms

• cas beth
• cas gan
• casáu
• casineb

Noun

cas m (plural casau or casoedd)

1. hatred, hatefulness

Etymology 2

From English case.

Noun

cas m (plural casiau)

1. case, container

   Synonym: cynhwysydd

Derived terms

• cas pensiliau

Etymology 3

Abbreviated form of castell (“castle”).

Noun

cas m (uncountable)

1. Used in place names.

Derived terms

• Cas-gwent (“Chepstow”)
• Casllwchwr (“Loughor”)
• Casnewydd (“Newport”)

Etymology 4

Inflected form of cael (“to have; to receive, to get”).

Verb

cas

1. third-person singular preterite of cael

Alternative forms

• cadd (poetic)
• caeth (colloquial)
• cafas (obsolete)
• cafodd

Mutation