casta

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) caste
2. (feminine) lineage (of a person)
3. (feminine) breed (of an animal)
4. (Argentina, Spain, feminine) establishment (the exclusive class of powerful people thought to really rule the country)

Adj

feminine singular of casto

casto

1. chaste (abstaining from sexual intercourse)
2. (obsolete) pure

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Concepts

caste

breed

quality

race

descent

ancestry

kind

line

lineage

origin

parentage

pedigree

sort

species

stock

type

virgin

blood line

line of descent

see venir de casta

stemma

blood

🩸

bloodline

clan

class

family

👪

Synonyms

linaje

tipo

clase

estirpe

parentesco

condición

descendencia

especie

familia

👪

generación

guia

índole

línea

origen

proprement quelque chose de non mélangé

raza

sangre

🩸

variedad

virgen

abolengo

alcurnia

calaña

pedigrí

saga

virginal

varna

línea de descendencia

línea de sangre

árbol genealógico

cepa o tronco de linaje

calidad

caste

casto

cepa

Translations

Kaste

caste

race

casta

casta

razza

Rasse

kaste

Art

casta

lignaggio

famiglia

👪

procreare

Zucht

Hyphenated as

cas‧ta

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkasta/

Etymology

Cognate with Gothic: *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃

In summary

*Probably of Germanic origin; compare Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”). Alternatively from a derivative of Latin castus (“chaste”).
* (establishment): Term popularized in Spain in 2014 by the Spanish politician Pablo Iglesias, and his Podemos party to criticize the establishment. Although the term was already used in the 19th and 20th centuries and in 2010 by politicians and journalists.