cassar
See also: Cassar
Old Catalan
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *captiāre, from Latin capto.
Verb
cassar
- alternative spelling of caçar
- c. 1287, Ramon Llull, chapter 3, in Llibre de meravelles, volume I:
- un caualler cassaua, lo qual segui tan longament un senglar,
- A knight hunted, who is followed so long by a wild boar,
Portuguese
Etymology
From Late Latin cassāre (“to nullify, to void”), from Latin cassus. Compare Italian cassare and French casser (“to break”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈsa(ʁ)/ [kaˈsa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /kaˈsa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /kaˈsa(ʁ)/ [kaˈsa(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /kaˈsa(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈsaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈsa.ɾi/
- Homophone: caçar
- Hyphenation: cas‧sar
Verb
cassar (first-person singular present casso, first-person singular preterite cassei, past participle cassado)
- (transitive) to revoke, cancel, invalidate (political rights, etc.)
- (transitive, law) to quash
Conjugation
Conjugation of cassar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms
Further reading
- “cassar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “cassar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026