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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kæʒ/
  • Rhymes: -æʒ

Adjective

cas (comparative more cas, superlative most cas)

  1. (informal) Abbreviation of casual.
    • 2015, The Intern:
      don't feel like you have to dress up. I mean, we're super cas here

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Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 2

Contraction

cas

  1. Contraction of ca es.

Further reading

Drehu

Drehu cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : cas

Pronunciation

Numeral

cas

  1. one

References

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French cas, borrowed from Latin cāsus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka/ ~ /kɑ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • 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

Anagrams

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:
      Trigo limpo non o hai; se queres algún centeo, vai por el a cas meu pai
      There's no clean wheat; if you want some rye, go fetch it chez my father
    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

  • Cas de Pedro
  • Casdeguístola
  • Casdemendo
  • Casmartiño

References

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 (plural cas-cas)

  1. A type of hand game

Derived terms

  • mengecas
  • mengecaskan

Verb

cas

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

Derived terms

  • casan
  • mengecas
  • mengecaskan
  • pengecas

Descendants

  • → Tetum: cas

Further reading

Irish

FWOTD – 28 June 2018

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

More information Positive, singular ...
Declension of cas
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative cas chas casa;
chasa2
vocative chais casa
genitive caise casa cas
dative cas;
chas1		 chas;
chais (archaic)		 casa;
chasa2
Comparative níos caise
Superlative is caise
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1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Verb

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

  1. twist
  2. turn
  3. wind
  4. twist, wind, wrap (something) around (something else) [with ar or thar]
  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. (in the autonomous) meet with [with ar or do or le]
    Casadh an fear orm. ― I met the man.
    Cathain a casfar ort í? ― When will you meet her?
  10. (in the autonomous) happen to have [with chuig or ag]

Conjugation

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verbal noun casadh
past participle casta
tense singular plural relative autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative
present casaim casann tú;
casair†		 casann sé, sí casaimid casann sibh casann siad;
casaid†		 a chasann; a chasas /
a gcasann*		 castar
past chas mé; chasas chas tú; chasais chas sé, sí chasamar; chas muid chas sibh; chasabhair chas siad; chasadar a chas /
ar chas*		 casadh
past habitual chasainn / gcasainn‡‡ chastá / gcastᇇ chasadh sé, sí / gcasadh sé, s퇇 chasaimis; chasadh muid / gcasaimis‡‡; gcasadh muid‡‡ chasadh sibh / gcasadh sibh‡‡ chasaidís; chasadh siad / gcasaidís‡‡; gcasadh siad‡‡ a chasadh /
a gcasadh*		 chastaí / gcasta퇇
future casfaidh mé;
casfad		 casfaidh tú;
casfair†		 casfaidh sé, sí casfaimid;
casfaidh muid		 casfaidh sibh casfaidh siad;
casfaid†		 a chasfaidh; a chasfas /
a gcasfaidh*		 casfar
conditional chasfainn / gcasfainn‡‡ chasfá / gcasfᇇ chasfadh sé, sí / gcasfadh sé, s퇇 chasfaimis; chasfadh muid / gcasfaimis‡‡; gcasfadh muid‡‡ chasfadh sibh / gcasfadh sibh‡‡ chasfaidís; chasfadh siad / gcasfaidís‡‡; gcasfadh siad‡‡ a chasfadh /
a gcasfadh*		 chasfaí / gcasfa퇇
subjunctive
present go gcasa mé;
go gcasad†		 go gcasa tú;
go gcasair†		 go gcasa sé, sí go gcasaimid;
go gcasa muid		 go gcasa sibh go gcasa siad;
go gcasaid†		 — go gcastar
past dá gcasainn dá gcastá dá gcasadh sé, sí dá gcasaimis;
dá gcasadh muid		 dá gcasadh sibh dá gcasaidís;
dá gcasadh siad		 — dá gcastaí
imperative
– casaim cas casadh sé, sí casaimis casaigí;
casaidh†		 casaidís — castar
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conjugation of cas (first conjugation – A)

* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

Synonyms

Derived terms

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

Noun

cas m (genitive singular casta, nominative plural castaí)

  1. Alternative form of casadh

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...
Mutated forms of cas
radical lenition eclipsis
cas chas gcas
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Further reading

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *časъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

cas m inan

  1. time (inevitable passing of events)

Declension

More information Singular, Dual ...
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative cas casa case
Genitive casa casowu casow
Dative casoju casoma casam
Accusative cas casa case
Instrumental casom casoma casami
Locative casu casoma casach
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Declension of cas

Derived terms

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

Noun

cas

  1. charge
    1. (electromagnetism, chemistry) an electric charge.
      Synonym: muatan (Indonesian)

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: cas

Further reading

Middle English

Etymology

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

Noun

cas (plural cass)

  1. case (event, happening)

Descendants

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

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

More information radical, lenition ...
Mutation of cas
radical lenition
caschas
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Spanish

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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

Welsh

Pronunciation

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

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

Etymology 3

Abbreviated form of castell (“castle”).

Noun

cas m (uncountable)

  1. Used in place names.
Derived terms

Etymology 4

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

Verb

cas

  1. third-person singular preterite of cael
Alternative forms

Mutation

More information radical, soft ...
Mutated forms of cas
radical soft nasal aspirate
cas gas nghas chas
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