# casse
## English
### Etymology

From French casse (literally “breakage”), from casser (“to break”).

### Noun

casse (uncountable)
* A fault in wine, caused by an enzyme, making it turn from red to brown, or white to yellow, on exposure to air.

### See also

* casse-croute

### References

* ↑ “casse”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

### Anagrams

* cases, SCEAs, SECAs

## French
### Etymology 1

From casser.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kas/ ~ /kɑs/ (/ɑ/ in dialects with this phoneme)
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑs

#### Verb

casse
* inflection of casser:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

##### Derived terms

* casse-noisette
* casse-noix
* casse-pieds
* casse-tête

#### Noun

casse m (plural casses)
* (slang) burglary, break-in

##### Derived terms

* chien de la casse

#### Noun

casse f (plural casses)
* breakage (act of breaking)
    Antonym: non-casse
* (colloquial, figuratively) ruckus; mayhem
    Synonym: grabuge
    Il va y avoir de la casse ! ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
* breaker's yard, wreck yard

##### Derived terms

* non-casse

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian cassa, from Latin capsa. Doublet of châsse and caisse.

#### Noun

casse f (plural casses)
* (typography, informatics) case
    sensible à la casse ― case-sensitive

### Further reading

* “casse” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
* “casse” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
* “casse” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
* “casse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* cases, cessa

## Italian
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

casse
* feminine plural of casso

#### Participle

casse f pl
* feminine plural of casso

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

casse f pl
* plural of cassa

### Anagrams

* cessa, scesa

## Latin
### Adjective

casse
* vocative masculine singular of cassus

### References

* “casse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "casse", 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)

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *cassanus (attested in Medieval Latin as casnus), probably from Gaulish kassanos. Compare French chêne (Old French chesne, chasne), Franco-Provençal châno. See also Aragonese caixico, Spanish quejigo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkase]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

casse m (plural casses)
* oak

#### Derived terms

* cassanha
* cassenada
* cassenat
* cassenòla

#### Dialectal variants

* casso (Gascony)
* chassanh (Limousin)

#### Synonyms

* garric
* roire

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* case, quase

### Etymology

Northern variant of central Old French chasse, from Latin capsa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkasə/

### Noun

casse oblique singular, f (oblique plural casses, nominative singular casse, nominative plural casses)
* (Old Northern French) case (box; container, etc.)

#### Descendants

* Norman: câsse
* → Middle English: case, caas, casse
** English: case
** Yola: kaase
** → Irish: cás

### References

* casse on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (caisse, supplement)

## Portuguese
### Verb

casse
* inflection of cassar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative