casca

casca

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

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 (ed.), 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 (ed.), 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 (ed.), 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

• cascón
• cascuda

• cascar

• “casca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “casca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “casca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “casca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “casca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

casca

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

• sacca

Back-formation from cascar (“to peel”), from Vulgar Latin *quassicare, from quassāre.

casca f (plural cascas)

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

• cascalho

casca

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of cascar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of cascar

casca

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of cascar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of cascar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of cascar.