Noun: casita
| Singular | casita |
| Plural | casitas |
Sample Sentences
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Last fall, construction began on the new spa building with […] about 30 two-bedroom, free-standing casitas. [2007 May 11, Nick Kaye, “Icon Vallarta and Pronghorn”, in New York Times:]
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AARP, the research and advocacy behemoth, has begun aggressively promoting the spread of these units, often referred to as casitas or, more cheekily, granny flats. [[2023 September 6, Michelle Cottle, “The Magic of the Granny Flat”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
Nouns inflected like casita
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish casita (literally “small house”). See: Spanish Nouns '
casita'.