cas

• IPA^(key): /kæʒ/
• Rhymes: -æʒ

cas (comparative more cas, superlative most cas)

1. Informal abbreviation for casual

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [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.

• 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.

• “cas” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cas d” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cas” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cas” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cas” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

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

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
8. (with ar, do, le) meet with

   Casadh an fear orm. ― I met the man.

   Cathain a casfar ort í? ― When will you meet her?

9. (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

• 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
• Entries containing “cas” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “cas” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• 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.

Inherited from Old Polish czas.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sas]
• Syllabification: cas

cas m inan (diminutive casek)

1. time (particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something)
2. time; period (length of time)
3. weather (short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.)

• Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “czas”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur‎, volume 1, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, pages 375-378

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• 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
• 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