casso

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

Borrowed from Latin cassus (“hollow”, “empty”).

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

2. useless, fruitless

   Synonyms: futile, inutile, vano

   Antonym: utile

   • 1516, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso [Raging Roland]‎^[1], 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 […]

3. deprived, devoid

   Synonyms: privo, sfornito

   Antonyms: dotato, fornito

4. expelled or fired
5. dejected, disheartened

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

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

2. (archaic) past participle of cassare
   1. erased, gone, destroyed
   2. (figurative) fired

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

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

casso m (plural cassi) (archaic, literary)

2. ribcage
3. (by extension) thorax

   Synonym: torace

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

casso

1. first-person singular present indicative of cassare

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkas.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkas.so]

From cassus + -ō.

cassō (present infinitive cassāre, perfect active cassāvī, supine cassātum); first conjugation

1. to nought, to annul, to nullify, to cassate

   Synonym: abrogō

Plautinian form for quassō.

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

1. alternative form of quassō

• cassābundus

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, 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