cascata

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaˈska.ta/
Rhymes: -ata
Hyphenation: ca‧scà‧ta

Etymology 1

From cascare +‎ -ata; cognate with Piedmontese cascà; from Latin cāsus (“fallen”).

Noun

cascata f (plural cascate)

cascade, waterfall
(informal, rare) fall
cascade (hairpiece for women)

Derived terms

Descendants

→ French: cascade
- → Danish: kaskade
- → Dutch: cascade
- → English: cascade
- → German: Kaskade
- → Romanian: cascadă
- → Swedish: kaskad
→ Maltese: kaskata
→ Portuguese: cascata
→ Spanish: cascada
- → Catalan: cascada

See also

Participle

cascata f sg

feminine singular of cascato

Anagrams

saccata

Portuguese

cascata

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cascata (“cascade, waterfall”), ultimately from Latin cāsus (“fallen”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /kasˈka.tɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kaʃˈka.tɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kasˈka.ta/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐʃˈka.tɐ/

Rhymes: -atɐ
Hyphenation: cas‧ca‧ta

Noun

cascata f (plural cascatas)

cascade
1. waterfall
2. series of events
3. big lie
(informal) vagina (woman's genitalia)
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina/translations

Derived terms

cascatear

Further reading

“cascata” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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