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English

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Adjective

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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

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin cāsus (“case”).

Noun

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cas m (plural casos)

  1. case (event, situation, or fact)
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Etymology 2

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Contraction

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cas

  1. Contraction of ca es.

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Drehu

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Drehu cardinal numbers
1 2  > 
    Cardinal : cas

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Numeral

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cas

  1. one

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French cas, borrowed from Latin cāsus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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

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Galician

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /ˈkas/

Noun

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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

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

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

  1. A type of hand game

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Verb

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cas

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

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Descendants

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  • → Tetum: cas

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Irish

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FWOTD – 28 June 2018

Etymology

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

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Adjective

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

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

Declension

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Declension of cas
singular plural (m/f)
Positive 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

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Verb

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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

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conjugation of cas (first conjugation – A)
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
verbal noun casadh
past participle casta

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

Synonyms

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Noun

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cas m (genitive singular casta, nominative plural castaí)

  1. Alternative form of casadh

Mutation

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Mutated forms of cas
radical lenition eclipsis
cas chas gcas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Lower Sorbian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *časъ.

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Noun

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cas m inan

  1. time (inevitable passing of events)

Declension

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Declension of cas
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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Further reading

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  • 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

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Etymology

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From English charge. Doublet of caj.

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Noun

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cas

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

Descendants

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  • → Indonesian: cas

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Middle English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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cas (plural cass)

  1. case (event, happening)

Portuguese

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cas f pl

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

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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

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Adjective

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cas (comparative caise)

  1. steep

Mutation

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Mutation of cas
radical lenition
cas chas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Spanish

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Named by indigenous peoples in Costa Rica (Chibchan).

Pronunciation

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

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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

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

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Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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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
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Noun

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cas m (plural casau or casoedd)

  1. hatred, hatefulness

Etymology 2

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From English case.

Noun

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cas m (plural casiau)

  1. case, container
    Synonym: cynhwysydd
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Etymology 3

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Abbreviated form of castell (“castle”).

Noun

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cas m (uncountable)

  1. Used in place names.
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Etymology 4

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

Verb

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cas

  1. third-person singular preterite of cael
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Mutation

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Mutated forms of cas
radical soft nasal aspirate
cas gas nghas chas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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