casita
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See also: ĉasita
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish casita (literally “small house”).
Noun
[edit]casita (plural casitas)
- (US) A small, attached but self-contained house or apartment.
- 2007 May 11, Nick Kaye, “Icon Vallarta and Pronghorn”, in New York Times[1]:
- Last fall, construction began on the new spa building with […] about 30 two-bedroom, free-standing casitas.
Synonyms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From casa (“house”) + -ita. Cognate with Italian casetta.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]casita f (plural casitas)
- diminutive of casa
- mother-in-law apartment
- (in the plural) house (children's activity of pretending to be a family)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: casita
Further reading
[edit]- “casita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Spanish countable nouns
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