casca

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

casca f (plural casques)

1. synonym of closca

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

casca

1. inflection of cascar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “casca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “casca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “casca”, 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

Attested from the 14th century. Back-formation from cascar (“to peel”), from Vulgar Latin *quassicare, from quassāre.

casca f (plural cascas)

1. skin; peel; rind (of fruits or vegetables)
   • 1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C, page 117:

     ẽna almẽdra son tres cousas: a cortiça da çima et a casca et a vianda de dentro

     there are three things in an almond: the external husk, the peel, and the viand inside

2. bark (of trees)
   • 1439, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 418:

     e da cárrega de palla, un diñeiro e do carro da casqa, duas brancas

     for a load of hay, [they shall pay] a diñeiro, and by a cartload of bark, two brancas

3. shell (of eggs or nuts)
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 129:

     Para esto ual o ouo torrado ataa que se faça duro et depois tollelle a casca et faz tal como bollo

     For this you must use egg, roasted till its hard; remove then the shell and make a roll with it

4. husk

• tona

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “casca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “casca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “casca”, 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), “casca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “casca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

casca

1. inflection of cascar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈkas.ka/
• Rhymes: -aska
• Hyphenation: cà‧sca

casca

1. inflection of cascare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Sacca, Saccà, sacca

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Deverbal from cascar (“to peel”).

casca f (plural cascas)

1. skin; peel; rind (of fruits or vegetables)
2. bark (of trees)
3. shell (of eggs or nuts)
4. husk
5. scab

casca

1. inflection of cascar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaska/ [ˈkas.ka]
• Rhymes: -aska
• Syllabification: cas‧ca

casca

1. inflection of cascar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative