Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗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.
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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