casaca

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French casaque, from Italian casacca. Cognate with English cassock.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

casaca f (plural casaques)

1. dress coat
2. frock coat

Further reading

• “casaca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “casaca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “casaca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “casaca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈza.kɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈza.kɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈza.ka/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈza.kɐ/

• Rhymes: -akɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧sa‧ca

Noun

casaca f (plural casacas)

1. dress coat

Derived terms

• vira-casaca
• virar a casaca

Further reading

• “casaca” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈsaka/ [kaˈsa.ka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ca‧sa‧ca

Etymology 1

Unknown, cognate with French casaque and Italian casacca, possible ultimately from Turkish qazaq. Doublet of cosaco and kazajo.

Noun

casaca f (plural casacas)

1. (Spain, Peru) jacket

   Synonyms: chaqueta, (El Salvador) chumpa

Etymology 2

Noun

casaca f (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, Guatemala, El Salvador) lies, bullshit

   Synonym: mentira

   ¡Casaca!

   Lies!

   No creerías la casaca que me dieron.

   You wouldn't believe the lies they told me.

Derived terms

• casaquero

 

Further reading

• “casaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
• “casaca” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010