casaca

Catalan

Etymology

From French casaque. Cognate with English cassock.

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kəˈza.kə/

(Valencian) IPA^(key): /kaˈza.ka/

Noun

casaca f (plural casaques)

Further reading

“casaca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“casaca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
“casaca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“casaca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈza.kɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈza.ka/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈza.kɐ/

Rhymes: -akɐ
Hyphenation: ca‧sa‧ca

Noun

casaca f (plural casacas)

dress coat

Derived terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaˈsaka/ [kaˈsa.ka]
Rhymes: -aka
Syllabification: ca‧sa‧ca

Etymology 1

Unknown, cognate with French casaque and Italian casacca, possible ultimately from Turkish qazaq.

Noun

casaca f (plural casacas)

(Spain, Peru) jacket
Synonyms: chaqueta, (El Salvador) chumpa

Noun

casaca f (uncountable)

(colloquial, Guatemala, El Salvador) lies, bullshit
¡Casaca!
Lies!

No creerías la casaca que me dieron.
You wouldn't believe the lies they told me.

Synonym: mentira

Further reading

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

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