casis

From Spanish caciz or Portuguese caxis, which was from a dialectal pronunciation of Arabic قَاضٍ‎ (qāḍin, “judge”). Doublet of qadi and alcalde.

casis (plural casises)

1. Obsolete form of qadi.
2. (historical) a Muslim holy man or a saint.

• Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, by Sir Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell

casis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of casar

casīs f

1. dative/ablative plural of casa

• casis 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)