casta

Borrowed from Spanish casta.

casta (plural castas)

1. (historical) A hierarchical system of race classification created by Spanish elites in Hispanic America during the eighteenth century.

• ACATS

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.ta/

casta f (plural castes)

1. race, breed
2. type, kind

   Synonym: mena

3. caste

See the etymology of the main entry.

casta

1. feminine singular of cast

• “casta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “casta” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “casta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “casta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• caste

Probably from Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), compare English cast.[1] Alternatively from a derivative of Latin castus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasta̝/

casta f (plural castas)

1. species, race or kind
   • 1807, anonymous, Segundo diálogo dos esterqueiros:

     ben dicen alí que cando un home ten un bocado, nunca lle marran amigos. Dou ó Demo a casta deles Si non sirven para máis.

     wisely they say that a man which has food never is short of friends. I send to hell their kind if they are good for nothing else

2. quality
3. lineage, progeny, offspring, group of people who share the same ancestors
4. caste (hereditary class)

• ser da casta do Demo (“to be a bad person”, literally “to be one of the Devil's offspring”)
• castizar (“to mate”)
• castizo (“stud pig”)

• “casta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “casta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “casta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): [ˈkɑsˠt̪ˠə]
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): [ˈkasˠt̪ˠə]

casta

1. past participle of cas

casta

1. twisted, wound
2. complicated, intricate, involved
3. gnarled, bent, wizened

• aischasta (“revolute”, adjective)
• castacht f (“complexity, intricacy”)

casta m sg

1. genitive singular of casadh

• "casta" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Borrowed from Portuguese casta or Spanish casta, probably of Gothic and Germanic origin.

casta f (plural caste)

1. caste
2. establishment; the exclusive class of powerful people thought to really rule Italy

• anticasta

casta f sg

1. feminine singular of casto (“chaste”)

• tasca

casta

1. nominative feminine singular of castus
2. nominative neuter plural of castus
3. accusative neuter plural of castus
4. vocative feminine singular of castus
5. nominative neuter plural of castus

castā

1. ablative feminine singular of castus

• casta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʃ.tɐ/
• Hyphenation: cas‧ta

Uncertain, possibly from the feminine of casto (“chaste”) (from Old Portuguese casto, from Latin castus) or from Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (*kastan) or *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), *kastuz.

casta f (plural castas)

1. bloodline; lineage
2. breed; race
3. species
4. caste (hereditary social classes)

• (lineage): linhagem, sangue
• (race): raça

casta

1. Feminine singular of adjective casto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasta/, [ˈkast̪a]

Probably of Germanic origin; compare Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”). Alternatively from a derivative of Latin castus.

casta f (plural castas)

1. lineage
2. breed
3. caste

• castizo

casta

1. Feminine singular of adjective casto.

• “casta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.