cás

• IPA^(key): /kɑːsˠ/^[1][2][3], /kaːsˠ/^[4]

From Middle English cas, from Old French cas (“an event”), from Latin cāsus (“a fall”), perfect passive participle of cadō (“to fall”).

cás m (genitive singular cáis, nominative plural cásanna)

1. case (actual event, situation, or fact; piece of work)
2. instance (case offered as an example)
3. (law) case (legal proceeding), action
4. (medicine) case (instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms)
5. affair (that which is or is to be done; any proceeding characterized vaguely)
6. situation (state of affairs), scenario

• cuir i gcás
• in anchás
• cruachás

Borrowed from Middle English case, from Anglo-Norman casse (“box, chest, case”) (compare Old French chasse), from Latin capsa (“box, bookcase”), from capiō (“I take, seize, hold”).

cás m (genitive singular cáis, nominative plural cásanna)

1. case (box; piece of luggage; sheath, covering; pack of bottles or cans), suitcase
2. (typography) case (the nature of a piece of alphabetic type)
3. cage (enclosure)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cás ‘case, matter, circumstance’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 cás (e.g. glass case)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cás”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -as, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃ, (Brazil) -ajs, (Rio de Janeiro) -ajʃ
• Homophone: cais (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: cás

cás

1. plural of cá