# casa
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish casa. Doublet of chez.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɑːsə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːsə

### Noun

casa (plural casas)
* (slang) house
    Get out of my casa!
** 1896, Bret Harte, Stories in Light and Shadow:I saw that Enriquez had made no attempt to modernize the old casa, and that even the garden was left in its lawless native luxuriance.
** 1991 May 12, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:Chuffy: WHAT? No, no, no, no, no. My casa is your casa, what?

### Anagrams

* A.A.C.S., AACS, AACs, ACAS, ACAs, ASAC, ASCA, CAAs

## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Latin casa.

### Noun

casa f (plural casas)
* house

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin casa.

### Noun

casa f (plural cases)
* house
* household, family (that live together)
* inner space of shoes (especially clog's)
* stable

#### Derived terms

* casa conceyu
* casa ganáu
* casa Dios
* de casa

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈka.zə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈka.za]
* Rhymes: -aza

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin casa.

#### Noun

casa f (plural cases)
* house

##### Derived terms

* a casa d'un penjat no hi anomenis cordes
* caseta
* casinyot
* casolà
* mestressa de casa

##### Related terms

* casella
* casera
* casino

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

casa
* inflection of casar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “casa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “casa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “casa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “casa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Corsican
### Etymology

From Latin casa. Cognates include Italian casa and Spanish casa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.za/
* Hyphenation: ca‧sa

### Noun

casa f (plural case)
* house
    Synonym: domu

### References

* “casa” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

## Extremaduran
### Noun

casa
* house

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.za/

### Verb

casa
* third-person singular past historic of caser

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkasa/ [ˈkɑ.s̺ɐ]
* Rhymes: -asa
* Hyphenation: ca‧sa

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese casa, from Latin casa.

#### Alternative forms

* cas

#### Noun

casa f (plural casas)
* house
** structure serving as an abode of human beings
** farmhouse
** noble family; lineage
    Casa de Andrade ― House of Andrade
    Synonym: dinastía
** company, firm
* home (one’s own dwelling place)
    Synonyms: fogar, lar
* (board games) a cell which may be occupied by a piece (such as a square in a chessboard)

##### Usage notes

When preceding the preposition de the apocopated form cas, rather than casa, is frequently used.

##### Derived terms

* casa baixa
* casa cuberta
* Casa de Naia
* casa do concello
* Casa do Monte
* Casa do Vento
* Casa Grande
* casa grande
* casa indiana
* Casa Lousada
* Casa Nova
* casa terrea
* casa torre
* Casabranca
* Casagrande
* Casanova
* Casas Baratas
* Casas do Monte
* Casas Novas
* Casas Vellas
* Casasoá
* Casasoa
* Casavella
* caseiro
* Casela
* Caselas
* caseño
* caseta

##### Related terms

* casal
* casarío
* casil

#### References

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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

casa
* inflection of casar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Interlingua
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.sa/

### Noun

casa (plural casas)
* house
* home

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Aran) IPA: /ˈkɑsˠə/
* (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA: /ˈkasˠə/

### Adjective

casa
* nominative/vocative/dative and strong genitive plural of cas

### Verb

casa
* inflection of cas:
** present subjunctive analytic
** (obsolete) second-person singular present indicative

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin casa (“house”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.za/, (traditional) /ˈka.sa/
* Audio (Northern):(file)
* Rhymes: -aza, (traditional) -asa
* Hyphenation: cà‧sa

### Noun

casa f (plural case, diminutive casìna or casétta or casettìna, augmentative casóna or casóne m, pejorative casàccia, endearing-derogatory casùccia)
* house
    Synonyms: abitazione, dimora
* home
* family, dynasty, descent, stock, lineage, birth, origin
    Synonyms: casato, stirpe, dinastia
    è di casa nobile ― he is of noble descent
* homeland, fatherland
    Synonym: patria
** (figurative) one's customs
    A casa mia queste cose non si fanno.We don't do these things where I come from.
* (board games) square
    Synonym: casella
* structure for public use
** structure for a collective or plurality or people
    casa rifugio ― safe house
    casa da gioco ― casino (literally, “game house”)
** place of religious gathering
    Synonyms: chiesa, convento, monastero
    casa di Dio ― house of God
    casa religiosa ― religious institution
** institution for punishment or corrections
    casa di correzione ― corrections facility
    casa di cura e custodia ― psychiatric institution (literally, “care and custody facility”)
    casa di pena ― prison (literally, “house of punishment”)
** company, firm, shop
    Synonyms: ditta, azienda, società
    casa editrice ― publishing house
    casa di spedizioni ― shipments company
** (colloquial, euphemistic) brothel, whorehouse

#### Derived terms

* casa barca
* Casa Bianca
* casa colonica
* casa costruttrice
* casa d'appuntamenti
* casa da gioco
* casa dello studente
* casa di bambole
* casa di correzione
* casa di cura
* casa di moda
* casa di pena
* casa di piacere
* casa di riposo
* casa di tolleranza
* casa discografica
* casa editrice
* casa famiglia
* casa farmaceutica
* casa generalizia
* casa madre
* casa popolare
* casa reale
* casa, dolce casa
* casina
* fatto in casa
* padrona di casa
* vino della casa

#### Related terms

* casale
* casalinga
* casalingo
* casamatta
* casamento
* casareccio
* casata
* casato
* caseggiato
* casino
* casolare
* casotto
* rincasare

### References

* ↑ casa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Further reading

* casa on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{it}$
* casa in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
* casa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
* casa in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
* casa in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
* casa in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
* casa in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
* casa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from either Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net”) (compare catēna (“chain”)), or Proto-Indo-European *ket- (“hut, shed”) (compare Old English heaþor (“restraint, confinement, enclosure, prison”), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”), Mazanderani کَت (kat, “wall”)), likely through borrowing from another Indo-European language rather than inheritance due to the presence of the medial -s-. Ultimately may be of substrate or wanderwort origin; more at cot, and see Proto-Uralic *kota.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈka.sa/, [ˈkäs̠ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈka.sa/, [ˈkäːs̬ä]

### Noun

casa f (genitive casae); first declension
* hut, cottage, cabin
    Synonyms: aedēs, domus, domicilium, habitātiō, mānsiō, sēdēs, tēctum
* rural property, small farm
* (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) dwelling, residence, house

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* casāles
* casālis
* casānicus
* casāria
* casārius
* casella
* casellula
* casula

#### Descendants

* Eastern Romance:
** Aromanian: casã
** Istro-Romanian: cåsĕ
** Megleno-Romanian: casă
** Romanian: casă
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: casa
** Asturian: casa
** Mirandese: casa
** Old Galician-Portuguese: casa
*** Fala: casa
*** Galician: casa, cas
*** Portuguese: casa, caza (obsolete)
**** Guinea-Bissau Creole: kasa, kaza
**** Indo-Portuguese: casa
**** Kabuverdianu: kasa
**** Karipúna Creole French: kaz
**** Korlai Creole Portuguese: kadz
**** Kristang: kaza
**** Macanese: casa
**** Papiamentu: ka (partly)
** Old Spanish: casa
*** Spanish: casa
**** → Cebuano: kasa
**** → English: casa
**** → Papiamentu: kas (partly)
* Gallo-Italic:
** Emilian: chèṡa, cà
** Ligurian: câza
** Lombard: cà
** Piedmontese: ca
** Romagnol: ca
    Sammarinese: chêsa, ca’
** Venetan: caxa, ca’
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: casa, ca
** Occitan: casa, cò
** Old French: chiese, chese
*** French: chez
**** → English: chez
*** ⇒ Norman: caisèye, Norman: quieux (preposition), Norman: ciez (Coutance, preposition)
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Dalmatian: cuosa
** Istriot: casa
** Italian: casa, ca’
** Sicilian: casa
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: cjase, čhase
** Ladin: cèsa, cesa
** Romansch: chasa
* Sardinian:
** càsa
* → Interlingua: casa (and from Italian and Spanish)

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “casa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 96

### Further reading

* “casa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “casa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "casa", 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)
* casa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “casa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡sasa/

### Noun

casa
* inflection of cas:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative dual

## Macanese
### Etymology

From Portuguese casa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkaza/, /ˈkazɐ/

### Noun

casa (plural casa-casa)
* house
* home
    na casa ― at home
    trabalo di casa ― homework

#### Usage notes

* Not to be confused with casâ (“to marry”).

#### Related terms

* casarám (“big house, mansion”)

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin casa.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

casa f (plural cases)
* house

## Old Spanish
### Alternative forms

* cassa

### Etymology

From Latin casa (“cottage”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkaza/

### Noun

casa f (plural casas)
* house
** c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 42v:dixo eliſeu$_s$ q́t fare di q́ as entu caſſa. la maceba nulla coſa en caſa. ſi nõ una oliera de olioElisha said, “What can I do for you? Tell [me], what do you have in your house?” [She said,] “Your maidservant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”
** Idem, f. 80r.
    por aq́l logar dixo nŕo ſeñor a ieremias, ve a caſa del orcero e ẏ fablare cõtigo.Around that place Our Lord said to Jeremiah, “Go to the potter's house, and I will speak to you there.”

#### Descendants

* Ladino: kaza
* Spanish: casa

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.zɐ/
* Audio (Northern Portugal):(file)
* Rhymes: -azɐ
* Hyphenation: ca‧sa

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese casa, from Latin casa (“cottage”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net; hut, shed”).

#### Alternative forms

* caza (obsolete)

#### Noun

casa f (plural casas)
* house
** structure serving as an abode of human beings
*** 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 135:Ele agora tem uma casa nas montanhas.He now has a house in the mountains.
    Aquela casa é grande. ― That house is big.
** building or institution serving as something other than residence, such as a shop
    Casa de carnes. ― Butcher’s shop.
** noble family
    Synonym: dinastia
    Casa de Bragança ― House of Braganza
* home (one’s own dwelling place)
    Synonym: lar
    Estou em casa. ― I'm at home.
* (board games) a cell which may be occupied by a piece (such as a square in a chessboard)
    O peão está uma casa à direita do cavalo. ― The pawn is one square to the right of the knight.
* a digit position
    No número 12345, o algarismo 3 ocupa a casa das centenas. ― In the number 12345, the digit 3 is in the hundreds’ place.
* (slang) a destined place for shows or festive meetings
    A casa encheu por causa do espetáculo dele. ― The place was full because of his show.

##### Derived terms

* casa civil
* casa da mãe Joana
* casa de banho
* casa de câmara e cadeia
* casa de campo
* casa de cômodos
* casa de correção
* casa de despejo
* casa de orates
* casa noturna
* casa onde não há pão, todos ralham e ninguém tem razão
* casa roubada, trancas à porta
* casão
* casarão
* casaréu
* casebre
* caseiro
* casinha (“diminutive”)
* casita
* casona (“augmentative”)
* casucha
* em casa de ferreiro, o espeto é de pau
* ô de casa
* por conta da casa
* quem casa quer casa
* santa casa
* sentir-se em casa
* ser de casa

##### Descendants

* Guinea-Bissau Creole: kasa, kaza
* Indo-Portuguese: casa
* Kabuverdianu: kasa
* Karipúna Creole French: kaz
* Korlai Creole Portuguese: kadz
* Kristang: kaza
* Macanese: casa
* Papiamentu: ka (partly)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

casa
* inflection of casar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “casa”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “casa”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “casa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “casa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “casa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “casa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

casa
* definite nominative/accusative singular of casă

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French casser.

#### Verb

a casa (third-person singular present casează, past participle casat) 1st conjugation
* to annul a court decision

##### Conjugation
## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* chasa (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader)
* tgea, tgeasa (Sutsilvan)
* tgesa, tga (Surmiran)
* chesa (Puter)

### Etymology

From Latin casa.

### Noun

casa f (plural casas)
* (Sursilvan) house

## Sicilian
### Etymology

From Latin casa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkaːsa/
* Audio (Eastern Sicilian):(file)
* Hyphenation: cà‧sa

### Noun

casa f (plural casi)
* house

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkasa/ [ˈka.sa]
* Audio (Bolivia):(file)
* Audio (Latin America):(file)
* Rhymes: -asa
* Syllabification: ca‧sa
* Homophone: (Latin America) caza

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin casa (“cottage”).

#### Noun

casa f (plural casas)
* house

##### Derived terms

* casilla
* casita
* caserón
* casona
* casota
* casucha
* a casa (“home, homewards”, adverb)
* alegría de la casa
* ama de casa
* amo de casa
* armar una casa
* cabeza de casa
* cabo de casa
* caérsele la casa encima
* Casa Blanca
* casa consistorial
* casa cuna
* casa cural
* casa de acogida
* casa de aldea
* casa de altos
* casa de aposento
* casa de balcón
* casa de banca
* casa de baños
* casa de beneficencia
* casa de bolsa
* casa de calderas
* casa de camas
* casa de cambio
* casa de campo
* casa de citas
* casa de coima
* casa de comidas
* casa de conversación
* casa de correos
* casa de devoción
* casa de Dios
* casa de dormir
* casa de empeño
* casa de estado
* casa de expósitos
* casa de fieras
* casa de huéspedes
* casa de juego
* casa de lenocinio
* casa de locos
* casa de malicia
* casa de mancebía
* casa de moneda
* casa de muñecas
* casa de oración
* casa de orates
* casa de pailas
* casa de placer
* casa de postas
* casa de préstamos
* casa de prostitución
* casa de pupilos
* casa de putas
* casa de recreo
* casa de socorro
* casa de tía
* casa de tolerancia
* casa de trato
* casa de vacas
* casa de vecindad
* casa del rey
* casa del Señor
* casa destroyer
* casa discográfica
* casa embrujada
* casa encantada
* casa grande
* casa mía, casa mía, por pequeña que tú seas, me pareces una abadía
* casa móvil
* casa parroquial
* casa paterna
* casa real
* casa rodante
* Casa Rosada
* casa rural
* casa solar
* casa solariega
* casamiento en casa
* casar
* casco de casa
* casería
* caserío
* casero
* caseta
* casino
* como una casa
* criada de casa
* cuerpo de casa
* de entre casa
* de entrecasa
* de la casa
* de su casa
* echar la casa por la ventana; tirar la casa por la ventana
* el casado casa quiere
* empezar la casa por el tejado
* en casa (“at home, home”, adverb)
* en casa de herrero, cuchara de palo
* estar de casa
* guardar la casa
* invita la casa
* marca de casa
* mi casa es su casa, mi casa es tu casa
* mi casa y mi hogar cien doblas val
* para andar por casa
* por cuenta de la casa
* por la casa (“on the house”)
* reina de la casa
* vino de la casa
* zapatilla de estar por casa

##### Descendants

* → Cebuano: kasa
* → English: casa
* → Papiamentu: kas (partly)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

casa
* inflection of casar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### See also

* hogar
* lar

### Further reading

* “casa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Venetan
### Etymology

Compare Italian cassa

### Noun

casa f (plural case)
* case
* cash desk
* fund
* coffin

#### Descendants

* →⇒ Cimbrian: kèssle

### See also

* caxa