casula

See also: 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

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “casula”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “casula”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

Etymology tree

Latin casa

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ula

Latin casula

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.sʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.s̬u.la]

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

• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Italian: casola, ⇒ casolare
  • Venetan: caciòła

Through the Late variant casub(u)la:

• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: casulla (latinized)
  • Old French: chesible
    • French: chasuble (latinized)
    • → Esperanto: kazublo
    • → Middle English: chesible
      • English: chasuble (latinized)
  • Old Occitan: cazubla, cazibla
    • Occitan: casubla
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: casula (latinized)
    • Galician: casula
    • Portuguese: casula, casulo
  • Old Spanish: casulla (latinized)
    • Spanish: casulla
• Borrowings:
  • → Middle Dutch: casufle
    • Dutch: kazuifel

Borrowings:

• → Albanian: kaçule, kaçulle
• → Byzantine Greek: κασοῦλα (kasoûla)
  • Greek: κασούλα (kasoúla)
  • → Albanian: kësulë, kësuljë
    • →? Aromanian: cãciulã, cãciuã
    • →? Romanian: căciulă
• → Bulgarian: ка́зула (kázula)
• → German: Kasel
• → Hungarian: kecele
  • → Serbo-Croatian: kècelja / кѐцеља
• → Indonesian: kasula
• → Italian: casula
• → Old Irish: casal, causal
  • Irish: casal
• → Proto-Brythonic: *kasʉl
  • → Breton: kasul
  • → Middle Welsh: casul
    • → Welsh: casul
• → Proto-Slavic: *košuľa (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kȁzula / ка̏зула

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, 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/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈzu.lɐ/

• Hyphenation: ca‧su‧la

Noun

casula f (plural casulas)

1. chasuble

Derived terms

• casulo

Further reading

• “casula”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “casula”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026