casula

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin casula.

Noun

casula (plural casulae)

1. A chasuble.

Anagrams

• Calusa, casual, causal

Galician

Casulas of a flail

Alternative forms

• casuma

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese casula (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin casubla, from Latin casula (“little cottage, hooded cloak”), a diminutive of casa (“house”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɑˈsulɐ]

Noun

casula f (plural casulas)

1. chasuble
2. corn husk

   Synonym: folello

3. (botany) pod (a seed case for legumes)

   Synonym: vaíña

4. leather or iron pods at the extremes of the flail, used to connect both elements together

   Synonym: capeliza

Derived terms

• casulo
• escasular

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “casula”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “casula”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “casula”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “casula”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “casula”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin casula.

Noun

casula f (plural casule)

1. chasuble

Latin

Etymology

casa (“hut, cottage”) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.su.la/, [ˈkäs̠ʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.su.la/, [ˈkäːs̬ulä]

Noun

casula f (genitive casulae); first declension

1. hut, small cottage
2. rural property, small farm
3. vestment
4. (Late Latin) cloak

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	casula	casulae
genitive	casulae	casulārum
dative	casulae	casulīs
accusative	casulam	casulās
ablative	casulā	casulīs
vocative	casula	casulae

Related terms

• casellula
• casella

Descendants

• Catalan: casulla
• Old French: chesible
  • French: chasuble
  • → English: chasuble
• Italian: casolare, casula
• Old Galician-Portuguese: casula
  • Galician: casula
  • Portuguese: casula, casulo
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: casulla
• Venetan: caciòła
• → Albanian: kaçule, kaçulle
• → Byzantine Greek: κασοῦλα (kasoûla)
  • Greek: κασούλα (kasoúla)
  • → Albanian: kësulë, kësuljë
    • →? Aromanian: cãciulã, cãciuã
    • →? Romanian: căciulă
• → Hungarian: kecele
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: кѐцеља

  Latin script: kècelja

• → Old Irish: casal, causal
  • Irish: casal
• → Proto-Slavic: *košuľa (see there for further descendants)
• → Welsh: casul

Further reading

• “casula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “casula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• casula 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)
• casula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

casula

Etymology

From Late Latin casubla, from Latin casula (“little cottage, hooded cloak”), a diminutive of casa (“house”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈzu.lɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈzu.lɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈzu.la/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈzu.lɐ/

• Hyphenation: ca‧su‧la

Noun

casula f (plural casulas)

1. chasuble

Derived terms

• casulo