casque

See also: casqué

English

A 4th-century Roman ornamental casque

Etymology

Borrowed from French casque. Doublet of casco and cask.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kɑːsk/
  • (file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /kæsk/

Noun

casque (plural casques)

  1. A helmet.
    • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section I:
      He beheld his child dashed to pieces, and almost buried under an enormous helmet, an hundred times more large than any casque ever made for human being, and shaded with a proportionable quantity of black feathers.
  2. A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as the hornbill or cassowary.
    • 2015, James Eaton et al., “Trade-driven extinctions and near-extinctions of avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia”, in Forktail, page 2, column 2:
      Helmeted Hornbill, Rhinoplax vigil (CR): Restricted to the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, this is the only hornbill species whose casque is solid keratin and therefore carvable.

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Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kask/
  • (file)
  • Homophone: casques

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish casco.

Noun

casque m (plural casques)

  1. helmet
  2. hard hat
  3. headphones
  4. (zoology) casque
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Bulgarian: ка́ска (káska)
  • English: casque
  • Romanian: cască
  • Russian: ка́ска (káska)
  • Turkish: kask
  • Ukrainian: ка́ска (káska)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

casque

  1. inflection of casquer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

casque

  1. inflection of cascar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

casque

  1. inflection of cascar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

casque

  1. inflection of cascar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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