casso

• IPA^(key): /ˈkas.so/
• Rhymes: -asso
• Hyphenation: càs‧so

From Latin cassus (“hollow”, “empty”).

casso (feminine cassa, masculine plural cassi, feminine plural casse) (literary, obsolete)

1. useless; fruitless

   Synonyms: futile, inutile, vano

   Antonym: utile

   • 1516, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso [Raging Roland]‎, Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, Canto XXI, page 96:

     Non fu gia l'altro colpo uano, e caſſo; ¶ roppe lo ſcudo: e ſi la ſpalla preſe ¶ che la forò da l'uno a l'altro lato […]

     The other blow was not vain and fruitless: ¶ it broke the shield, and hit the shoulder so ¶ that it pierced through it […]

2. deprived; devoid

   Synonyms: privo, sfornito

   Antonyms: dotato, fornito

3. expelled or fired
4. dejected; disheartened

Perfect passive participle form of cassare (“to erase, take out”), from Vulgar Latin *cassāre (“to nullify, void”), derived from Latin cassus.

casso (feminine cassa, masculine plural cassi, feminine plural casse)

1. (obsolete) past participle of cassare
   1. erased, gone, destroyed
   2. (figuratively) fired

• (erased): cancellato, distrutto, perduto
• (fired): licenziato

From Latin capsus (“the body of a carriage”) (cfr. capsa (“box”)).

casso m (plural cassi)

1. (obsolete) ribcage
2. (obsolete, by extension) thorax

   Synonym: torace

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

casso

1. first-person singular present indicative of cassare

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.soː/, [ˈkäs̠ːoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.so/, [ˈkäsːo]

From cadō (“fall”) +‎ -tō (verb-forming suffix).

cassō (present infinitive cassāre, perfect active cassāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. (Late Latin) I totter, I begin to fall

• cassābundus

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cassō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of cassus

• “casso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• casso in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• casso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “cassō” on page 308/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

casso

1. first-person singular present indicative of cassar