Noun: caste
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | caste |
| Plural f | castes |
Sample Sentences
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Por aquí nacen os ricos polo outro probes labregos. Estas son as dúas castes que hai en todo o mundo inteiro. (Here the rich people are born, there the poor peasants; these are the two races that there are in the whole world) [1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 29:]
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Dime logo que o probe do animal ou é de mala caste, ou ben non come (He readily told me that the animal [that I was selling] either was of bad quality, or either it didn't eat) [1859, Ramón Barros Silvelo, Un dia de desfertuna, page 3:]
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{ soy llamado Pedro Luces ... } - To to to, vamos con tento que un home con ese nome pode ser caste do demo. ({I am called Peter Lights...} —Wo wo wo! Let us be careful: a man with that name could de a Devil's child.) [1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 8:]
Nouns inflected like caste
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, *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), compare English cast. See: English Nouns '
cast'.
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