caso

caso

1. first-person singular present indicative of casar

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈka.zu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈka.zo]

caso

1. first-person singular present indicative of casar

caso

1. first-person singular present indicative of casar

Borrowed from Latin cāsus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.zo/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -azo
• Hyphenation: cà‧so

caso m (plural casi)

1. chance, fate

   Synonyms: destino, fato

2. chance, coincidence, accident

   Synonyms: coincidenza, fatalità

3. case, circumstance, matter, affair

   Synonyms: fatto, affare, vicenda, situazione

4. possibility, opportunity, alternative

   Synonyms: evenienza, possibilità

5. (grammar) case

• → Maltese: każ

• caso in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• caso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• caso in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• caso in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• caso in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• caso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Cosa, caos, cosa, cosà, osca

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈkaːsə]

Inherited from Latin cāseus.

caso m (plural case)

1. cheese

   Synonym: furmaggio

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1217: “salare il formaggio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Borrowed from Italian caso.

caso m (plural case)

1. case, event, occasion

• Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “caso”, in Schedario Napoletano

• Rhymes: -azu
• Hyphenation: ca‧so

Borrowed from Latin cāsus.

caso

2. if (introduces a condition)

   Synonym: se

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caso m (plural casos)

1. case
   2. an actual event, situation or fact
   4. piece of work to be done
   6. (sciences) instance used as a topic of study
   8. (grammar) grammatical case (category that reflects the function performed by a noun phrase)
3. tale; story; account

   Synonyms: história, causo, estória, conto

5. affair; love affair (adulterous relationship)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:caso.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

caso

2. first-person singular present indicative of casar

For quotations using this term, see Citations:casar.

• “caso”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “caso”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “caso” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “caso”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “caso”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “caso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaso]

caso

1. vocative singular of casă

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaso/ [ˈka.so]

• Audio (Latin America):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: ca‧so
• Homophone: (Latin America) cazo

Borrowed from Latin cāsus.^[1]

caso m (plural casos)

1. case (situation or fact)

   en mi caso ― in my case

   es un caso especial ― it's a special case

2. (medicine) case (instance of a medical condition)

   Aumentan los casos de diabetes entre niños.

   The number of cases of diabetes among children is rising

3. (law) case

   el caso Bárcenas ― the Bárcenas case

4. (grammar) case
5. occasion

• → Cebuano: kaso
• → Tagalog: kaso

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

caso

1. first-person singular present indicative of casar

• “caso”, 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

From Italian Italian cazzo.

caso m (plural casi)

1. (vulgar) dick, cock, prick (penis)