casal

From case +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪsəl/

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casal (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Of or relating to a case.

   a casal ending

   casal affix

   casal terminatiion

• “casal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• AACSL, Calas, Scala, calas, scala

Inherited from Late Latin casāle (“country house, farm”), ultimately from Latin casa. Compare Portuguese casal, Spanish casal, Italian casale.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈzal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈzal]
• Rhymes: -al

casal m (plural casals)

1. a manor house
2. the seat of an association, generally open to the public, of a cultural, political, recreational, etc. nature
3. a noble house, such as the royal house of Austria or Aragon
   • 2016 April 13, Òscar Adamuz, “Sobre el català i l'ús de les llengües a la Corona d'Aragó; una Franja d'història”, in La Veu del País Valencià:

     Per tant, sembla clar que la llengua aragonesa (o la castellana) no era pas desconeguda entre els reis del casal d'Aragó

     So it seems clear that the Aragonese language (or the Castilian) was not unknown to the kings of the House of Aragon

• “casal”, 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

• casar

From Old Galician-Portuguese casal, from Late Latin casāle (“country house, farm”), ultimately from Latin casa. Compare Portuguese casal, Spanish casal, Italian casale, Old French chesal.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈsal/

casal m (plural casais)

1. homestead (a house together with surrounding land and buildings)

   Synonym: casarío

2. hamlet

   Synonyms: barrio, casarío, lugar, quinteiro, rueiro, poubea, vilar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “casal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “casal”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “casal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “casal”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “casal”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Irish casal (“mantle, cloak, chasuble”), from Latin casula (“little cottage, hooded cloak”), a diminutive of casa (“house”).

casal m (genitive singular casail, nominative plural casail)

1. (Christianity) chasuble
2. mantle

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “casal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “casal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “chasuble”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “casal”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

• casau (Gascony)
• chasal (Auvergne)

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin casālis (“domestic, belonging to the house”) or casāle (“country house, farm”), ultimately from casa.

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casal m (plural casals)

1. (Languedoc) vegetable garden

From Old Galician-Portuguese casal, from Late Latin casālis (“domestic, belonging to the house”) or casāle (“country house, farm”), ultimately from casa. Compare Italian casale, Old French chesal, Spanish casal.

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: ca‧sal

casal m (plural casais)

1. couple, married couple

   O casal perfeito não existe. ― The perfect couple does not exist.

2. pair
3. (colloquial) a pair consisting of a male and a female
   • 1983 December 16, Mario Sergio Della Rina, quoting Duda Mendonça, “Futebol vende. E emociona”, in Placar, number 708, São Paulo: Abril, →ISSN, page 36:

     Tenho um casal de gêmeos, de 12 anos, e meu garoto viveu a mesma situação.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. village, hamlet
5. farmhouse

For quotations using this term, see Citations:casal.

• casa

• → Hunsrik: Casal

Inherited from Late Latin casālis (“domestic, belonging to the house”) or casāle (“country house, farm”), ultimately from casa. Compare Italian casale, Old French chesal, Catalan casal.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈsal/ [kaˈsal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ca‧sal

casal m (plural casales)

1. country house

   Synonym: casa de campo

2. (Canary Islands, Rioplatense, Paraguay, Venezuela) mating pair (of animals)
3. (poetic) hearth

   Synonyms: hogar, lar

4. empty lot

• “casal”, 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