casco

Borrowed from Spanish casco. Doublet of cask and casque.

casco (plural cascos)

1. (nautical) A flat-bottomed, square-ended boat once used in the Philippines as a lighter to ferry goods between ship and shore

• Cocas, SACCO, cocas, socca

casco

1. first-person singular present indicative of cascar

Borrowed from Spanish casco.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑs.kɔː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: cas‧co

casco n (uncountable)

1. shell of a building, car or ship

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasko/ [ˈkɑs̺.kʊ]
• Rhymes: -asko
• Hyphenation: cas‧co

First attested in the 13th century. Back-formation from cascar.

casco m (plural cascos)

1. casque; helmet; skull

   Synonyms: capacete, helmo, chola, borguiñota, gocete, camal

   • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 639:

     en guisa que llj tallou o almofar da loriga cõ hũa muy grã peça do casco

     in such a way that he cut the mail aventail together with a large piece of the casque [or skull]

   • 1671, Gabriel Feijoo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:

     eu quero mal à esta jente
     einos de por en talladas
     esfarelandoll'os cascos
     do corpo sacarll'as almas

     I wish ill these people
     I'll make slices of them
     crushing them helmets [or skulls]
     from them bodies I'll take out them souls

2. hard hat
3. (nautical) hulk; hull
4. shell; husk
5. hoof

   Synonym: pezuño

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 147:

     Quando o Cauallo ouver peeira deuen lle allinpar moy ben as huñas so as sollas do fondo do pee ataa que fique o casco moy sotil

     When the horse is ill in its foot they should clean the hooves, down under the sole of the feet, till the hoof is very subtle

6. empty bottle
7. bark of tree

   Synonyms: casca, cortiza, tona

8. bran

   Synonym: casulo

• casquete
• cascón

• casca
• cascar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “casco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “casco” 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), “casco”, 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), “casco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “casco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

casco

1. first-person singular present indicative of cascar

Of debated origin; possibly from English casualty and collision^[1] or Spanish casco (“helmet”, figuratively, “protection”, or “hull of a ship”, used in connection with injuries sustained while travelling).^[2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɒskoː]
• Hyphenation: cas‧co
• Rhymes: -koː

casco (plural cascók)

1. (automotive) collision damage waiver
2. (automotive) theft protection insurance

   Synonym: gépjármű-biztosítás (vehicle insurance in a broader sense)

This type of insurance does not necessarily include liability insurance, travel insurance of the passengers, or any other kind of insurance (such as for personal effects carried in the vehicle), although it may be supplemented with them, depending on individual plans or packages.

• casco in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkas.ko/
• Rhymes: -asko
• Hyphenation: cà‧sco

Borrowed from Spanish casco.

casco m (plural caschi)

1. helmet
2. crash helmet
3. hair dryer
4. (collective) bunch (of bananas)

• → Turkish: kasko

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

casco

1. first-person singular present indicative of cascare

• Sacco, Scoca, cosca, sacco

Unadapted borrowing from Italian casco or unadapted borrowing from Spanish casco.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkas.kɔ/
• Rhymes: -askɔ
• Syllabification: cas‧co

casco n (indeclinable)

1. no-fault insurance

• casco in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -asku, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃku
• Hyphenation: cas‧co

Deverbal from cascar.

casco m (plural cascos)

1. skull, cranium
2. (nautical) hull
3. hoof, tip of a toe of ungulates
   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Fuga [Escape]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 188:

     Os pés callosos, duros como cascos, mettidos em alpercatas novas, caminhariam mezes.

     His callous feet, hard as hooves, shoved into new espadrilles, would walk for months.

4. shell (of a turtle)

   Meronyms: carapaça, plastrão

• cascos de rolha

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

casco

1. first-person singular present indicative of cascar

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasko/ [ˈkas.ko]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -asko
• Syllabification: cas‧co

Deverbal from cascar (“to split”), from Latin quassō (“shake, strike”).

• casqui- (combining form)

casco m (plural cascos)

1. helmet
2. crown (top part of a hat)
3. (nautical) hulk (unused ship)
4. (nautical) hull (frame or body of a boat or ship)
5. the foot of a horse; a hoof

   Synonym: pezuña

6. the city center
7. shard
8. potsherd
9. head (of an alcoholic beverage)
10. hull of a vegetable
11. vat, barrel
12. saddle tree
13. empty container, e.g. bottle or barrel
14. (used in plural) headphones

• → Catalan: casc
• → Dutch: casco
• → English: casco
• → German: Kasko
• → Italian: casco
• → Middle French: casque
  • French: casque (see there for further descendants)
  • → English: cask
• → Piedmontese: casch
• → Tagalog: kasko

casco

1. first-person singular present indicative of cascar

• “casco”, 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

• cacos
• cocas