casse

See also: cassé and câsse

English

Etymology

From French casse (literally “breakage”), from casser (“to break”).

Noun

casse (uncountable)

1. 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

• casse-croute

Anagrams

• SCEAs, cases

French

Etymology 1

From casser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kas/, /kɑs/ (/ɑ/ in dialects with this phoneme)

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑs

Verb

casse

1. inflection of casser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Derived terms

Derived terms

• casse-noisette
• casse-noix
• casse-pieds
• casse-tête

Noun

casse m (plural casses)

1. (slang) burglary, break-in

Derived terms

• chien de la casse

Noun

casse f (plural casses)

1. breakage (act of breaking)
2. breaker's yard, wreck yard

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian cassa, from Latin capsa. Doublet of châsse and caisse.

Noun

casse f (plural casses)

2. (typography, informatics) case

   sensible à la casse ― case-sensitive

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• cases, cessa

Italian

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

casse

1. feminine plural of casso

Participle

casse f pl

1. feminine plural of casso

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

casse f pl

1. plural of cassa

Anagrams

• cessa, scesa

Latin

Adjective

casse

1. vocative masculine singular of cassus

References

• “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

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈkase]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

casse m (plural casses)

1. oak

Derived terms

• cassanha
• cassenada
• cassenat
• cassenòla

Dialectal variants

• casso (Gascony)
• chassanh (Limousin)

Synonyms

• garric
• roire

Old French

Alternative forms

• case, quase

Etymology

Northern variant of central Old French chasse, from Latin capsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasə/

Noun

casse oblique singular, f (oblique plural casses, nominative singular casse, nominative plural casses)

1. (Old Northern French) case (box; container, etc.)

Descendants

• Norman: câsse
• → Middle English: cas
  • English: case
  • → Irish: cás

References

• casse on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (caisse, supplement)

Portuguese

Verb

casse

1. inflection of cassar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative