casita

Borrowed from Spanish casita.

casita (plural casitas)

1. A small, attached but self-contained house or apartment
   • 2007 May 11, Nick Kaye, “Icon Vallarta and Pronghorn”, in New York Times‎:

     Last fall, construction began on the new spa building with […] about 30 two-bedroom, free-standing casitas.

• mother-in-law apartment
• granny annexe

• Itasca

From casa (“house”) +‎ -ita. Cognate with Italian casetta

• IPA^(key): /kaˈsita/ [kaˈsi.t̪a]

casita f (plural casitas)

1. Diminutive of casa
   1. small house
   2. (endearing) house
2. mother-in-law apartment
3. (in the plural) house (children's activity of pretending to be a family)

• “casita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014