carcassa

Borrowed from Italian carcassa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kərˈka.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaɾˈka.sa]

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carcassa f (plural carcasses)

1. carcass

• “carcassa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “carcassa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “carcassa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “carcassa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Likely from carcasso, obsolete variant of turcasso (“quiver”). Compare the now obsolete “bomb” sense.

• IPA^(key): /karˈkas.sa/
• Rhymes: -assa
• Hyphenation: car‧càs‧sa

carcassa f (plural carcasse)

1. carcass
2. (by extension) hulk, shell
3. (by extension) framework, skeleton
4. (obsolete) a kind of bomb made of an iron framing covered with cloth, filled with flammable materials

   Hypernym: bomba

• carcassa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana