casteとは

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: käst, IPA^(key): /kɑːst/
• (General American), IPA^(key): /kæst/
• 異形同音異義語: cast, karst
• 韻: -ɑːst

名詞

caste (複数形 castes)

1. Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
   • 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     Pakistan is a conservative, religious state. The Edhi Foundation is unusual in its ignoring of caste, creed, religion and sect. This strict stance has led to some criticism from religious groups.

2. A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
   • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 236:

     'I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty - to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.'

   • Macaulay

     The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste.

3. (zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.

下位語

• (hereditary class of India): Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra, Vaishya, varna

アナグラム

• Cates, Stace, cates, scate, sceat, taces

Latin

語源 1

From castus +‎ -ē.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.teː/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.te/

副詞

castē (comparative castius, superlative castissimē)

1. purely, spotlessly, virtuously
2. piously, religiously

語源 2

Inflected form of castus.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.te/, [ˈkas.tɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.te/

形容詞

caste

1. vocative masculine singular of castus

参照

• caste in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caste in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caste in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette