casita

See also: ĉasita

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish casita (literally “small house”).

Noun

casita (plural casitas)

1. (US) A small, attached but self-contained house or apartment.
   • 2007 May 11, Nick Kaye, “Icon Vallarta and Pronghorn”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Last fall, construction began on the new spa building with […] about 30 two-bedroom, free-standing casitas.

   • [2023 September 6, Michelle Cottle, “The Magic of the Granny Flat”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     AARP, the research and advocacy behemoth, has begun aggressively promoting the spread of these units, often referred to as casitas or, more cheekily, granny flats.]

Synonyms

• mother-in-law apartment
• granny annexe

Anagrams

• Itasca

Spanish

Etymology

From casa (“house”) +‎ -ita. Cognate with Italian casetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈsita/ [kaˈsi.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: ca‧si‧ta

Noun

casita f (plural casitas)

1. Diminutive of casa
   1. small house
   2. (endearing) house
2. mother-in-law apartment
3. (in the plural) house (children's activity of pretending to be a family)

Descendants

• → English: casita

Further reading

• “casita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014