cas

• IPA^(key): /kæʒ/
• Rhymes: -æʒ

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

• A/Cs, ACS, ACs, ASC, CSA, SAC, SCA, Sac, a/cs, acs, sac

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkas]
• Rhymes: -as

Borrowed from Latin cāsus (“case”).

cas m (plural casos)

1. case (event, situation, or fact)

• estar al cas
• fer cas
• per si de cas
• per si un cas

• casual
• casuista

cas

1. Contraction of ca es.

• “cas” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cas” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Cardinal : cas

• IPA^(key): /kɑs/

cas

1. one

• Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Inherited from Old French cas, borrowed from Latin cāsus.

• IPA^(key): /ka/ ~ /kɑ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ

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

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

• ASC
• sac

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

IPA^(key): /ˈkas/

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

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cas”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cas d”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cas”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cas”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cas”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

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

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

1. A type of hand game

cas

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

• → Tetum: cas

• “cas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /kɑsˠ/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /kasˠ/

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

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

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

• Alternative verbal noun: castáil (Cois Fharraige)

• cor

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

cas m (genitive singular casta, nominative plural castaí)

1. Alternative form of casadh

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cas	chas	gcas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 67

From Proto-Slavic *časъ.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sas/

cas m inan

1. time (inevitable passing of events)

• casnik

• 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

From English charge. Doublet of caj.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃas/
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃas, -as

cas

1. charge
   1. (electromagnetism, chemistry) an electric charge.

      Synonym: muatan (Indonesian)

• → Indonesian: cas

• “cas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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

cas (plural cass)

1. case (event, happening)

cas f pl

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

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

• IPA^(key): /kʰas/

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

cas (comparative caise)

1. steep

Named by indigenous peoples in Costa Rica (Chibchan).

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

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

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

• “cas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• IPA^(key): /kaːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

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

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

• cas beth
• cas gan
• casáu
• casineb

cas m (plural casau or casoedd)

1. hatred, hatefulness

From English case.

cas m (plural casiau)

1. case, container

   Synonym: cynhwysydd

• cas pensiliau

Abbreviated form of castell (“castle”).

cas m (uncountable)

1. Used in place names.

• Cas-gwent (“Chepstow”)
• Casllwchwr (“Loughor”)
• Casnewydd (“Newport”)

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

cas

1. third-person singular preterite of cael

• cadd (poetic)
• caeth (colloquial)
• cafas (obsolete)
• cafodd