Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname.
* As a German surname, Americanized from Kast. * As an English surname, variant of Cass. * As a French surname, from Cast, Finistère in Brittany, ultimately from Latin castra (“fortification”). Sometimes also a variant of Caste, from Old French chaste (“chaste”).
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