caste.
Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
Meaning & usage
Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
The division of society into castes; the caste system.
A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
In beehives, most bees belong to the worker caste.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish casta (“lineage, breed, race”), which the OED derives from Portuguese casto (“chaste”), from Latin castus (“chaste"; "chastity”), Coromines (1987) argues instead for a hypothetical Gothic form *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts, “group, collection of animals”), cognate with English cast, from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ǵ-es-.
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