caco
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Singularization of cachi, originated by the wrong belief that "cachi" is the plural form.[1]
Noun edit
caco m (plural cachi)
- Alternative form of cachi (fruit)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
caco
References edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *kakāō, from a Proto-Indo-European root *kakka-.
Compare Old Irish cacc, Ancient Greek κακκάω (kakkáō), Middle Armenian քաք (kʻakʻ), Russian ка́кать (kákatʹ), and English cack.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.koː/, [ˈkäkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.ko/, [ˈkäːko]
Verb edit
cacō (present infinitive cacāre, perfect active cacāvī, supine cacātum); first conjugation
Conjugation edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Aromanian: cac, cãcari
- Asturian: cagar
- Catalan: cagar
- Dalmatian: cacuor
- → Middle Dutch: cacken
- Dutch: kakken
- Franco-Provençal: cacar
- French: chier, caguer
- Friulian: cjiâ, čhiâ
- Walloon: tchîr
- Italian: cacare
- Neapolitan: cacare
- Occitan: cagar
- Old Galician-Portuguese: cagar
- Romanian: căca, căcare
- Sardinian: cacare, cagai, cagare
- Sicilian: cacari
- Spanish: cagar
- Venetian: cagar
See also edit
References edit
- “caco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *cacculus, from Latin caccabus (“pot”), see also Galician cacho (“broken container, broken piece of a container”) and Spanish cacho.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -aku
- Hyphenation: ca‧co
Noun edit
caco m (plural cacos)
- shard; piece (broken piece of ceramic or glass)
- (by extension) junk
- (figuratively) wreck
- Estou um caco total. ― I'm a total wreck.
- (colloquial) head
- (theatre, drama, TV, film) ad-lib
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Cacus, a mythological thief.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
caco m (plural cacos)
- (colloquial) thief
- Synonym: ladrón
Further reading edit
- “caco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014