FromFrenchcasse(literally“breakage”), fromcasser(“to break”).[1]
casse (uncountable)
- Afault inwine, caused by anenzyme, making it turn from red to brown, or white to yellow, onexposure toair.
Fromcasser.
- IPA(key): /kas/ ~/kɑs/(/ɑ/ in dialects with this phoneme)
- Rhymes:-ɑs
casse
- inflection ofcasser:
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- second-personsingularimperative
casse m (pluralcasses)
- (slang)burglary,break-in
casse f (pluralcasses)
- breakage (act of breaking)
- Antonym:non-casse
- (colloquial, figuratively)ruckus;mayhem
- Synonym:grabuge
- Il va y avoir de lacasse ! ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
- breaker's yard,wreck yard
Borrowed fromItaliancassa, fromLatincapsa.Doublet ofchâsse andcaisse.
casse f (pluralcasses)
- (typography, informatics)case
- sensible à lacasse ―case-sensitive
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
casse
- feminineplural ofcasso
casse f pl
- feminineplural ofcasso
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
casse f pl
- plural ofcassa
casse
- vocativemasculinesingular ofcassus
FromOld Occitan[Term?], fromVulgar Latin*cassanus (attested in Medieval Latin ascasnus), probably fromGaulishkassanos. CompareFrenchchêne (Old Frenchchesne,chasne),Franco-Provençalchâno. See alsoAragonesecaixico,Spanishquejigo.
casse m (pluralcasses)
- oak
Inherited fromLatincapsa.
casseoblique singular, f (oblique pluralcasses,nominative singularcasse,nominative pluralcasses)
- Old Northern French form ofchasse
casse
- inflection ofcassar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
