Borrowed fromSpanish andPortuguese casta ( “ lineage, breed ” ) .
kasta f (relational adjective kastovní )
caste Declension ofkasta (hard feminine )
FromOld Norse kasta , fromProto-Germanic *kastōną . Cognate withIcelandic andSwedish kasta ,Norwegian andDanish kaste , andEnglish cast .
kasta (third person singular past indicative kastaði ,third person plural past indicative kastað ,supine kastað )
tothrow Synonyms: blaka ,tveita 1 Only the past participle being declined.
kasta
inflection ofkastaa : present active indicative connegative second-person singular present imperative second-person singular present active imperative connegative FromOld Norse kasta , fromProto-Germanic *kastōną . Cognate withFaroese andSwedish kasta ,Norwegian andDanish kaste , andEnglish cast .
kasta (weak verb ,third-person singular past indicative kastaði ,supine kastað )
tothrow , tofling , tohurl , totoss [intransitive or with dative ]Synonyms: varpa ,fleygja ,henda Kastaðu boltanum hingað!Toss the ball here!Aðkasta sér í sjóinn. Tohurl oneself into the ocean. ( baseball ) topitch [with dative ‘something’ ]( basketball ) toshoot [with dative ‘something’ ]( equestrianism ) tofoal ; togive birth to, tobear [with dative ‘offspring’ ]1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
kasta
indefinite genitive plural ofkast See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
kasta
indefinite genitive plural ofköstur FromPortuguese casta , possibly from the feminine ofcasto ( “ chaste ” ) , fromOld Galician-Portuguese casto , fromLatin castus or fromGothic *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 ( *kastan ) or*𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 ( *kasts ) , fromProto-Germanic *kastōną ( “ to throw, cast ” ) ,*kastuz .
kasta (plural kasta -kasta )
caste : a separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other, especially hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societiesBorrowed fromGerman Kasten .
kasta m inan (diminutive kastka )
chest Synonyms: czista ,skrzënia Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011 ), “skrzynia”, inSłownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi [1] Jan Trepczyk (1994 ), “skrzynia”, inSłownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes1–2 “kasta ”, inInternetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language ], Fundacja Kaszuby,2022 kasta n
definite plural ofkast kasta
inflection ofkaste : simplepast past participle FromOld Norse kasta , fromProto-Germanic *kastōną .
kasta (present tense kastar ,past tense kasta ,past participle kasta ,passive infinitive kastast ,present participle kastande ,imperative kasta /kast )
tothrow Kor langt kan dukasta denne? How far can youthrow this one? Conjugation ofkasta (weak class 3) infinitive kasta ,kaste present participle kastande past participle kasta supine kasta present past indicative singular kastar kasta indicative plural 1 kasta ― subjunctive kaste ― imperative singular kasta ,kast imperative plural 1 kaste
FromProto-Germanic *kastōną .
kasta
tocast , tothrow [with dative ] kasta um ( “ to throw about, turn around (something) ” ) Zoëga, Geir T. (1910 ), “kasta ”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic , Oxford: Clarendon Press ; also available at theInternet Archive FromOld Norse kasta , fromProto-Germanic *kastōną .
kasta
tothrow ,cast Conjugation ofkasta (weak) present past infinitive kasta — participle kastandi ,-e kastaþer active voice indicative subjunctive imperative indicative subjunctive iæk kastar kasti ,-e — kastaþi ,-e kastaþi ,-e þū kastar kasti ,-e kasta kastaþi ,-e kastaþi ,-e han kastar kasti ,-e — kastaþi ,-e kastaþi ,-e vīr kastum ,-om kastum ,-om kastum ,-om kastaþum ,-om kastaþum ,-om īr kastin kastin kastin kastaþin kastaþin þēr kasta kastin — kastaþu ,-o kastaþin mediopassive voice indicative subjunctive imperative indicative subjunctive iæk kastas kastis ,-es — kastaþis ,-es kastaþis ,-es þū kastas kastis ,-es — kastaþis ,-es kastaþis ,-es han kastas kastis ,-es — kastaþis ,-es kastaþis ,-es vīr kastums ,-oms kastums ,-oms — kastaþums ,-oms kastaþums ,-oms īr kastins kastins — kastaþins kastaþins þēr kastas kastins — kastaþus ,-os kastaþins
kasta in Knut Fredrik Söderwall,Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket , del 1: A-LInternationalism ; compareEnglish caste ,French caste ,German Kaste , ultimately fromPortuguese casta .
kasta f (related adjective kastowy )
( Hinduism ) caste ( any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies ) caste ( separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other ) ( zoology ) caste ( class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony ) kasta inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANkasta in Polish dictionaries at PWNkasta in PWN's encyclopediaBorrowed fromSpanish andPortuguese casta ( “ lineage, breed ” ) .
kȁsta f (Cyrillic spelling ка̏ста )
caste FromOld Swedish kasta , fromOld Norse kasta , fromProto-Germanic *kastōną ( “ to throw, cast ” ) , of unknown origin. Cognate with Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Nynorskkasta , Danish, Norwegian Bokmålkaste and Englishcast .
kasta (present kastar ,preterite kastade ,supine kastat ,imperative kasta )
tothrow (make an object fly through the air)Hankastade ett spjut Hethrew a spear toroll (a die)Hon kastadetärningen She rolledthe dice [die] [not figurative] tothrow away ,discard ,dispose ofHankastade prylen han inte längre använde Hethrew away the thing he no longer used ( reflexive ) to throw oneselfHankastade sig till marken Hethrew himself to the ground tocast (a shadow)Trädenkastade långa skuggor The treescast long shadows ( card games ) todiscard ,slough Hankastade kortet Hediscarded the card slänga (bit less powerful- and more sloppy-sounding)kasta FromMiddle High German kaste , fromOld High German kasto . Cognate withGerman Kasten .
kasta m (diminutive kastła )
chest (strong box)kasta
beauty