casta – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: casta
Gender: f Hyphenation:

Singular f	casta
Plural f	castas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like casta

palestra, indumentária, metafísica, histerectomia, cumplicidade, serifa, sestra, secura, semana, estrebaria, estreiteza, savana, saroba, sapata, safena, safira, militança, sacada, sacola, sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

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

Verbs referencing "casta"

French Nouns caste, English Nouns Casta, Danish Nouns kaste, Dutch Nouns kaste, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns kaste, Italian Nouns casta, Polish Nouns kasta, Russian Nouns каста, Ukrainian Nouns каста.

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