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/ka.sɛt/
Translation
cassette, tape
Word origin
A diminutive of Old French casse ('box, case'), from Latin capsa ('box, container'). It named a small money box or jewel box long before it named a little plastic box of magnetic tape, and English borrowed the modern sense back from French.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- capsa
- English cognates
- case, capsule, cassette
Grammar
Examples
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My father still keeps his old cassettes in a cardboard box.
rembobiner , ' ?
Can you rewind the tape, please?
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She recorded the song onto a cassette.
lecteur.
The tape is stuck in the player.
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Nobody sells cassettes here any more.
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