casket

English

Italian jewelry casket, from 1857, made of carved walnut, ebony and lined with red velvet

Etymology

Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask +‎ -et. Doublet of cassette.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkæs.kɪt/, /ˈkɑː.skɪt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkæs.kɪt/
• Rhymes: -æskɪt, (UK) -ɑːskɪt

Noun

casket (plural caskets)

1. A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     They will be here at five, take merely the clothes necessary for the journey and her jewel-casket.
     The Hunt for the Red Casked

2. (British) An urn.
3. (Canada, US) A coffin.
4. (nautical) A gasket.

Derived terms

• casket magazine
• closed casket

Translations

little box e.g. for jewelry

• Azerbaijani: sandıqca, mücrü
• Bashkir: шкату́лка f (şkatúlka)
• Belarusian: шкату́лка f (škatúlka)
• Bulgarian: касетка f (kasetka), ковчеже (bg) n (kovčeže)
• Catalan: cofret m, escriny m
• Czech: skříňka (cs) f, kazeta (cs) f
• Esperanto: skatoleto
• Finnish: lipas (fi), rasia (fi)
• French: coffret (fr) m
• Galician: couselo m, causela f
• German: Schatulle (de) f, Kästchen (de) n
• Greek: κασετίνα (el) f (kasetína), κουτί (el) n (koutí)

  Ancient Greek: κύτος n (kútos)

• Hungarian: ékszerdoboz (hu), ládika (hu), ládikó (hu)
• Italian: scrigno (it) m, cofanetto (it) m
• Latin: locellus m
• Macedonian: ко́вчеже n (kóvčeže)
• Polish: szkatułka (pl) f
• Portuguese: porta-joias m
• Russian: шкату́лка (ru) f (škatúlka), коро́бочка (ru) f (koróbočka)
• Spanish: cofrecito m, joyero (es) m
• Swedish: skrin (sv)
• Ukrainian: шкату́лка f (škatúlka)

urn

• Bulgarian: урна f (urna)
• Catalan: urna (ca) f
• Finnish: uurna (fi)
• German: Urne (de) f
• Greek: τεφροδόχος (el) f (tefrodóchos)
• Hungarian: urna (hu)
• Italian: urna (it) f
• Macedonian: у́рна f (úrna)
• Polish: urna (pl) f
• Portuguese: urna (pt) f
• Russian: у́рна (ru) f (úrna)
• Spanish: urna (es) f

coffin — see coffin

Verb

casket (third-person singular simple present caskets, present participle casketing, simple past and past participle casketed)

1. (poetic, transitive) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:

     I have […] casketed my treasure.

Related terms

• cask

Anagrams

• sacket