Etymograph

English

casa

Casa comes from Spanish casa ‘house’.

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentcasa1‘house’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1896casa1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English casa
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1896, Bret Harte: “I saw that Enriquez had made no attempt to…”.

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentcasaWiktionary, English casa‘house’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1896casaWiktionary, English casa. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1896, Bret Harte: “I saw that Enriquez had made no attempt to…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *kat- ‘to link or weave together’

chain, 6 more

through Latin casa ‘cottage’

casino, chez, 6 more

Today it means

noun house

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “casa”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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