Noun: casta
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | casta |
| Plural f | castas |
Sample Sentences
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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) [1807, anonymous author, Segundo diálogo dos esterqueiros:]
Nouns inflected like casta
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Probably from Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), compare English cast. Alternatively from a derivative of Latin castus. See: English Nouns '
cast', Latin Nouns '
castus'.
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