Etymograph

English

kasseri

Kasseri comes from Ottoman Turkish قاشر ‘kasseri, a type of cheese’, and goes back to Latin cāseus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcāseus1‘cheese’
  2. rupmoderncaș1‘cheese’
  3. Ottoman Turkishc. 1300–1928قاشر1kaşer‘kasseri, a type of cheese’
  4. Greek1453–presentκασέρι1kaséri
  5. Englishtodaykasseri1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English kasseri

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcāseusWiktionary, English kasseri‘cheese’
  2. rupmoderncașWiktionary, English kasseri‘cheese’
  3. Ottoman Turkishc. 1300–1928قاشرWiktionary, English kasserikaşer‘kasseri, a type of cheese’
  4. Greek1453–presentκασέριWiktionary, English kasserikaséri
  5. EnglishtodaykasseriWiktionary, English kasseri

Linked words

through Latin cāseus ‘cheese’

cheese, queso, quesadilla, casein, 8 more

Today it means

noun A medium-hard pale yellow cheese of Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, usually made from unpasteurized sheep milk.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “kasseri”. 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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