casco

See also: Casco, cascó, and cascò

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish casco. Doublet of cask and casque.

Noun

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

Anagrams

• Cocas, SACCO, cocas, socca

Catalan

Verb

casco

1. first-person singular present indicative of cascar

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish casco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑs.kɔː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: cas‧co

Noun

casco n (uncountable)

1. shell of a building, car or ship

Galician

Casco de Leiro, Bronze Age

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

• casquete
• cascón

Related terms

• casca
• cascar

References

• 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

Etymology 2

Verb

casco

1. first-person singular present indicative of cascar

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

casco (plural cascók)

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

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

Usage notes

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.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	casco	cascók
accusative	cascót	cascókat
dative	cascónak	cascóknak
instrumental	cascóval	cascókkal
causal-final	cascóért	cascókért
translative	cascóvá	cascókká
terminative	cascóig	cascókig
essive-formal	cascoként	cascókként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	cascóban	cascókban
superessive	cascón	cascókon
adessive	cascónál	cascóknál
illative	cascóba	cascókba
sublative	cascóra	cascókra
allative	cascóhoz	cascókhoz
elative	cascóból	cascókból
delative	cascóról	cascókról
ablative	cascótól	cascóktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	cascóé	cascóké
non-attributive possessive - plural	cascóéi	cascókéi

Possessive forms of casco
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	cascóm	cascóim
2nd person sing.	cascód	cascóid
3rd person sing.	cascója	cascói
1st person plural	cascónk	cascóink
2nd person plural	cascótok	cascóitok
3rd person plural	cascójuk	cascóik

Further reading

• 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).

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish casco.

Noun

casco m (plural caschi)

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

Descendants

• → Turkish: kasko

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

casco

1. first-person singular present indicative of cascare

Anagrams

• Sacco, Scoca, cosca, sacco

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

casco n (indeclinable)

1. no-fault insurance

Derived terms

noun

• autocasco

 

Further reading

• casco in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.ku/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʃ.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.ko/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʃ.ku/

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

Etymology 1

Deverbal from cascar.

Noun

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]‎^[1], 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)

Derived terms

• cascos de rolha

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

casco

1. first-person singular present indicative of cascar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasko/ [ˈkas.ko]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -asko
• Syllabification: cas‧co

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• casqui- (combining form)

Noun

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

Derived terms

• casco antiguo
• casco de burro
• casco de casa
• casco de estancia
• casco de metralla
• casco de población
• casco de vaca
• casco trincado
• casco urbano
• cascote
• casquero
• casquiacopado
• casquiblando
• casquiderramado
• casquillo
• casquilucio
• casquimuleño
• casquivano
• corona del casco
• de cascos lucios
• ligero de cascos
• romperse los cascos

 

Related terms

• cáscara

 

Descendants

• → 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

Etymology 2

Verb

casco

1. first-person singular present indicative of cascar

Further reading

• “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], 2024 December 10

Anagrams

• cacos
• cocas