cacha
Asturian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cacha f (plural caches)
French edit
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Verb edit
cacha
- third-person singular past historic of cacher
Galician edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese cachas (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *cappla, contracted form of *cappula, from the plural of capulum (“hilt”).
Noun edit
cacha f (plural cachas)
- (usually in the plural) scale (side plate of the handle of a knife)
- (colloquial, usually in the plural) buttock
- Synonym: nádega
- Antes os pais dicían ós fillos: "se te portas mal vas levar nas cachas!"
- In the past the parents used to say to their children: "if you misbehave you'll be spanked [on your buttocks]!"
- (rare) gutter
- (rare) scale (of a pine cone)
Etymology 2 edit
From cacho (“head”).
Noun edit
cacha f (plural cachas)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
cacha
- inflection of cachar:
References edit
- “cachas” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “cacha” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “cacha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cacha” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cacha” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese edit
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cacha
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *capla, contracted form of Late Latin capula, plural of capulum (“hilt”), from Latin capiō.
Noun edit
cacha f (plural cachas)
- (often in the plural) piece of the handle of a knife
- (often in the plural, firearms) stock, buttstock, butt (the part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shoulder)
- (Spain, colloquial) buttock
- (Spain, colloquial) cheek
- (Peru, colloquial) mockery
- (Spain, colloquial) leg, thigh
- (Chile, colloquial) sexual intercourse
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
cacha
- inflection of cachar:
Further reading edit
- “cacha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈkaχa/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈkaːχa/, /ˈkaχa/
Verb edit
cacha
- inflection of cachu:
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
cacha | gacha | nghacha | chacha |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |