kaste

kaste

1. plural of kas

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʰasd̥ə]
• Rhymes: -astə

Via German Kaste from Portuguese casta (“bloodline, race, caste”), probably from the feminine of the adjective casto (“chaste”), from Latin castus.

kaste c (singular definite kasten, plural indefinite kaster)

1. caste

From Old Danish kastæ, from Old Norse kasta, from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), cognate with Norwegian kaste and Swedish kasta. English cast is borrowed from Old Norse.

kaste (imperative kast, infinitive at kaste, present tense kaster, past tense kastede, perfect tense har kastet)

1. to throw, to chuck

   Kaste en bold. ― Throw a ball.

2. to drop

   Kaste en bombe (fra et fly). ― Drop a bomb (from an airplane).

3. to cast

   Koen kastede sin kalv. ― The cow cast its calf.

From Portuguese casta (“lineage, race”), from the feminine of casto (“pure, chaste”), from Latin castus (“pure, clean”). Cognate with Danish, Norwegian (see below), German Kaste, English caste, French caste etc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑstə/

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• Hyphenation: kas‧te
• Rhymes: -ɑstə

kaste f (plural kasten, diminutive kastetje n)

1. a caste, hereditary Indian socio-religious class (except the 'unclean' lowest) (depreciated in specialist usage)
2. a similarly closed social class, especially if rather impenetrable -notably (de facto) hereditary-, as in Ancient Egypt or various tribal and feudal societies
3. any closed, social and/or hierarchic group, such as a priesthood or a military corps
4. (obsolete) national/ethnic group or character

• (by caste type) officierenkaste, priesterkaste m or f
• kastegeest m
• kastenregel m
• kastenstelsel n
• kasteverdeeling, kastenverdeeling
• kastenwezen n

• stake

From Proto-Finnic *kastëk.

kaste (genitive kaste, partitive kastet)

1. dew

• kastehein
• kastekann

From kastma +‎ -e.

kaste (genitive kastme, partitive kastet)

1. sauce

From Proto-Finnic *kastëk. Equivalent to kastaa (“to wet, soak”) +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑsteˣ/, [ˈkɑ̝s̠te̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑste
• Syllabification^(key): kas‧te

kaste

1. dew
2. baptism, christening

• “kaste”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• katse, saket

kaste

1. dew

Related to Medieval Latin castō, from Proto-West Germanic *kastō (“box, case”).

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kaste f (5th declension)

1. box

From Proto-Finnic *kastëk. Cognates include Finnish kaste and Estonian kaste.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑstʲe/
• Hyphenation: kas‧te
• Rhymes: -ɑstʲe

kaste (genitive kastien, partitive kastettu)

1. dew

• Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 96

From Portuguese casta (“lineage, race”), from the feminine of casto (“pure, chaste”), from Latin castus (“pure, clean”) (cognate with Dutch kastijden (“to chastise”), English chasten, French chaste etc.), cognate with Danish, Dutch (see above) etc.

kaste m (definite singular kasten, indefinite plural kaster, definite plural kastene)

1. caste

From Old Norse kasta (compare with Danish kaste, Faroese, Icelandic, Swedish kasta and English cast).

kaste (imperative kast, present tense kaster, passive kastes, simple past and past participle kasta or kastet, present participle kastende)

1. (transitive) to throw
2. (transitive) to dart
3. to cast

   kaste skygge ― cast a shadow

• kast

• “kaste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

kaste m (definite singular kasten, indefinite plural kastar, definite plural kastane)

1. caste

kaste (present tense kastar, past tense kasta, past participle kasta, passive infinitive kastast, present participle kastande, imperative kaste/kast)

1. Alternative form of kasta

• underkaste

From Proto-Finnic *kastëk.

kaste

1. dew

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “роса”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika