casse

From French casse (literally “breakage”), from casser (“to break”).^[1]

casse (uncountable)

1. A fault in wine, caused by an enzyme, making it turn from red to brown, or white to yellow, on exposure to air.

• casse-croute

• cases, SCEAs, SECAs

From casser.

• IPA^(key): /kas/ ~ /kɑs/ (/ɑ/ in dialects with this phoneme)

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• Rhymes: -ɑs

casse

1. inflection of casser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

casse m (plural casses)

1. (slang) burglary, break-in

• chien de la casse

casse f (plural casses)

1. breakage (act of breaking)

   Antonym: non-casse

2. (colloquial, figuratively) ruckus; mayhem

   Synonym: grabuge

   Il va y avoir de la casse ! ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. breaker's yard, wreck yard

• non-casse

Borrowed from Italian cassa, from Latin capsa. Doublet of châsse and caisse.

casse f (plural casses)

2. (typography, informatics) case

   sensible à la casse ― case-sensitive

• “casse” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “casse” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “casse” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “casse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• cases, cessa

• IPA^(key): /ˈkas.se/
• Rhymes: -asse
• Hyphenation: càs‧se

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

casse

1. feminine plural of casso

casse f pl

1. feminine plural of casso

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

casse f pl

1. plural of cassa

• cessa, scesa

casse

1. vocative masculine singular of cassus

• “casse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "casse", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *cassanus (attested in Medieval Latin as casnus), probably from Gaulish kassanos. Compare French chêne (Old French chesne, chasne), Franco-Provençal châno. See also Aragonese caixico, Spanish quejigo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkase]

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casse m (plural casses)

1. oak

• cassanha
• cassenada
• cassenat
• cassenòla

• casso (Gascony)
• chassanh (Limousin)

• garric
• roire

• case, quase

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasə/

Inherited from Latin capsa.

casse oblique singular, f (oblique plural casses, nominative singular casse, nominative plural casses)

1. Old Northern French form of chasse

• casse on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (caisse, supplement)

casse

1. inflection of cassar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative