casaca

Borrowed from French casaque, from Italian casacca. Cognate with English cassock.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈza.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈza.ka]

casaca f (plural casaques)

1. dress coat
2. frock coat

• “casaca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “casaca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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.

• Rhymes: -akɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧sa‧ca

casaca f (plural casacas)

1. dress coat

• vira-casaca
• virar a casaca

• “casaca” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

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

Unknown, cognate with French casaque and Italian casacca, possible ultimately from Turkish qazaq. Doublet of cosaco and kazajo.

casaca f (plural casacas)

1. (Spain, Peru) jacket

   Synonyms: chaqueta, (El Salvador) chumpa

casaca f (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, Guatemala, El Salvador) lies, bullshit

   Synonym: mentira

   ¡Casaca!

   Lies!

   No creerías la casaca que me dieron.

   You wouldn't believe the lies they told me.

• “casaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “casaca”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010