casta
English
Noun
casta (uncountable)
- (historical) A hierarchical system of race classification created by Spanish elites in Hispanic America during the eighteenth century.
- 2012, Mary Jo Maynes, Ann Waltner, The Family: A World History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
- Both of these political developments called attention to family lineage. In the Mexican colonial context, casta took on new meanings, referring to all the people of Mexico who were not of “pure” Spanish heritage.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Further reading
- “casta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “casta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “casta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “casta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
Probably from Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), compare English cast.[1] Alternatively from a derivative of Latin castus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkasta̝/
Noun
casta f (plural castas)
- species, race or kind
- 1807, anonymous author, Segundo diálogo dos esterqueiros:
- ben dicen alí que cando un home ten un bocado, nunca lle marran amigos. Dou ó Demo a casta deles Si non sirven para máis.
- wisely they say that a man which has food never is short of friends. I send to hell their kind if they are good for nothing else
- quality
- lineage, progeny, offspring, group of people who share the same ancestors
- caste (hereditary class)
Derived terms
- ser da casta do Demo (“to be a bad person”, literally “to be one of the Devil's offspring”)
- castizar (“to mate”)
- castizo (“stud pig”)
References
- “casta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “casta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “casta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “casta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Irish
Declension
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | casta | chasta | casta; chasta² | |
Vocative | chasta | casta | ||
Genitive | casta | casta | casta | |
Dative | casta; chasta¹ |
chasta | casta; chasta² | |
Comparative | níos casta | |||
Superlative | is casta |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
casta | chasta | gcasta |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “casta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈka.sta/
- Rhymes: -asta
- Hyphenation: cà‧sta
Noun
casta f (plural caste)
- caste
- establishment; the exclusive class of powerful people thought to really rule Italy
Derived terms
Latin
Pronunciation
(Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.ta/, [ˈkäs̠t̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.ta/, [ˈkäst̪ä]
Adjective
casta
- inflection of castus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural
References
- casta 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)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkas.tɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈkaʃ.tɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkas.ta/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkaʃ.tɐ/
- Hyphenation: cas‧ta
Etymology 1
Uncertain, possibly from the feminine of casto (“chaste”) (from Old Galician-Portuguese casto, from Latin castus) or from Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (*kastan) or *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), *kastuz.
Noun
casta f (plural castas)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkasta/ [ˈkas.t̪a]
- Rhymes: -asta
- Syllabification: cas‧ta
Etymology 1
- Probably of Germanic origin; compare Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”). Alternatively from a derivative of Latin castus (“chaste”).
- (establishment): Term popularized in Spain in 2014 by the Spanish politician Pablo Iglesias, and his Podemos party to criticize the establishment.[1] Although the term was already used in the 19th and 20th centuries and in 2010 by politicians and journalists.[2]
Noun
casta f (plural castas)
- caste
- (of a person) lineage
- (of an animal) breed
- (Spain) establishment; the exclusive class of powerful people thought to really rule Spain
- Synonym: casta política
Derived terms
Further reading
- “casta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014