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5-letter words (5 found)

CASTE,CATES,CESTA,SCEAT,TACES,

4-letter words (22 found)

ACES,ACTS,AESC,ATES,CASE,CAST,CATE,CATS,CEAS,EAST,EATS,ETAS,SATE,SCAT,SEAT,SECT,SETA,TACE,TAES,TASE,TEAS,TECS,

3-letter words (20 found)

ACE,ACT,ATE,ATS,CAT,EAS,EAT,EST,ETA,SAC,SAE,SAT,SEA,SEC,SET,TAE,TAS,TEA,TEC,TES,

2-letter words (9 found)

AE,AS,AT,EA,ES,ET,ST,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 57 words from caste according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of caste

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Definitions and meaning of caste

caste

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish casta (“lineage, breed, race”), of uncertain origin. The OED derives it from Portuguese casto (“chaste”), from Latin castus. Coromines (1987) argues instead for a hypothetical Gothic form *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts), cognate with English cast, from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ǵ-es-.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: käst, IPA(key): /kɑːst/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /kæst/
  • Homophones: cast, karst (in some non-rhotic accents)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːst

Noun

caste (plural castes)

  1. Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
    Hyponyms: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra, Vaishya, varna
  2. A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
  3. (zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.

Derived terms

  • casteless
  • casteism
  • caste-ridden
  • half-caste
  • lose caste
  • quarter-caste

Translations

Anagrams

  • Cates, Stace, cates, scate, sceat, taces

Dutch

Verb

caste

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of casten

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese casta, if of Germanic origin, possibly from Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ǵ-es- (“to throw”), similar to English cast. Or, alternatively from a derivative of Latin castus.

Noun

caste f (plural castes)

  1. caste (hereditary class)
  2. class (social position)

Further reading

  • “caste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Alternative forms

  • casta

Etymology

Probably from Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), compare English cast.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaste̝/

Noun

caste f (plural castes)

  1. species, race or kind
  2. quality
  3. progeny; group of people that share a common ancestor
    Synonyms: estirpe, fruxe, liñaxe

Derived terms

  • castizar (“to mate”)
  • castizo (“stud pig”)
  • de caste (“selected”)

References

  • “caste” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “caste” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “caste” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Adjective

caste

  1. feminine plural of casto

Noun

caste f

  1. plural of casta

Anagrams

  • cesta, steca

Latin

Etymology 1

From castus +‎ -ē.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.teː/, [ˈkäs̠t̪eː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.te/, [ˈkäst̪e]

Adverb

castē (comparative castius, superlative castissimē)

  1. purely, spotlessly, virtuously
  2. piously, religiously

Etymology 2

Inflected form of castus.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.te/, [ˈkäs̠t̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.te/, [ˈkäst̪e]

Adjective

caste

  1. vocative masculine singular of castus

References

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

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