caca
English
Etymology
From Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”), of uncertain origin and relation. Cognate with English cack. Compare Latin cacō (“to defecate”), French caca (“excrement”), Basque kaka (“excrement”), Lithuanian kaka (“excrement”), Hungarian kaka (“excrement”), Italian cacca, Ancient Greek κάκκη (kákkē, “dung”), German kacken, Irish cac, Welsh cach, Cornish caugh, Breton cac'h, Aromanian cac, Scottish Gaelic cac, Romanian căca, Spanish caca (“excrement”).
Noun
caca (uncountable)
Synonyms
- cack; see also Thesaurus:feces
Anagrams
Fijian
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *qasam, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaʀsam.
Noun
caca
French
Etymology
From Latin cacāre (“to defecate”).
Pronunciation
Noun
caca m (plural cacas)
- (childish) poo (childish word for excrement)
- Pipi, caca, popo : histoire anecdotique de la scatologie. (Book title)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “caca”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Etymology
Onomatopoeic;[1] or either from a substrate language, from Proto-Celtic *kakkā. Compare Welsh cach and English caca.
Pronunciation
Noun
caca m (plural cacas)
References
- “caca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “caca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “caca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “caca”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Irish
Noun
caca
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| caca | chaca | gcaca |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English kaka, itself a borrowing from Maori kākā (“parrot”).
Noun
caca m (invariable)
- New Zealand kaka (Nestor meridionalis)
- Synonym: caca dei Maori
- Hypernym: nestore
- Coordinate term: chea
Further reading
- caca2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
caca
- inflection of cacare:
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
cacā
References
- caca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- caca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “caca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caca in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “caca”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -akɐ
- Hyphenation: ca‧ca
Noun
caca f (plural cacas)
Descendants
- → Sranan Tongo: kaka
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
caca f (uncountable)
Related terms
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
caca
Adjective
caca
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
caca f (plural cacas)
- (childish, colloquial) poo
- (South America, Spain, childish, colloquial) An object that is dirty, unsanitary, or that should not be touched.
- (childish, colloquial, by extension) An expression of disapproval used to tell children not to touch or handle something.
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “caca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Xhosa
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Verb
-caca
- to be clear
Inflection
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