cac

See also: CAC, các, çaç, and čāc

Aromanian

Alternative forms
  • cacu

Etymology

From Latin cacō. Compare Daco-Romanian căca, cac.

Verb

cac (past participle cãcatã)

  1. (vulgar, reflexive) I shit.

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cacc (“dung, excrement”).

Noun

cac m (genitive singular caca, nominative plural cacanna)

  1. faeces, excrement
  2. (vulgar) shit
  3. (mining) raw ore
  4. verbal noun of cac
Declension
Declension of cac

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cac cacanna
Vocative a chac a chacanna
Genitive caca cacanna
Dative cac cacanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cac na cacanna
Genitive an chaca na gcacanna
Dative leis an gcac

don chac

 leis na cacanna
Derived terms

Interjection

cac

  1. (vulgar) Shit!, Fuck!

Etymology 2

From Old Irish caccaid (“excretes”, verb), from cacc (“dung, excrement”).

Verb

cac (present analytic cacann, future analytic cacfaidh, verbal noun cac, past participle cactha)

  1. excrete, defecate
  2. (vulgar) shit
Conjugation
First Conjugation (A)
singular plural relative autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative present cacaim cacann tú;
cacair†		 cacann sé, sí cacaimid cacann sibh cacann siad;
cacaid†		 a chacann; a chacas /
a gcacann*; a gcacas*		 cactar
past chac mé; chacas chac tú; chacais chac sé, sí chacamar; chac muid chac sibh; chacabhair chac siad; chacadar a chac /
ar chac*		 cacadh
past habitual chacainn chactá chacadh sé, sí chacaimis; chacadh muid chacadh sibh chacaidís; chacadh siad a chacadh /
ar chacadh*		 chactaí
future cacfaidh mé;
cacfad		 cacfaidh tú;
cacfair†		 cacfaidh sé, sí cacfaimid;
cacfaidh muid		 cacfaidh sibh cacfaidh siad;
cacfaid†		 a chacfaidh; a chacfas /
a gcacfaidh*; a gcacfas*		 cacfar
conditional chacfainn / gcacfainn‡‡ chacfá / gcacfᇇ chacfadh sé, sí / gcacfadh sé, s퇇 chacfaimis; chacfadh muid / gcacfaimis‡‡; gcacfadh muid‡‡ chacfadh sibh / gcacfadh sibh‡‡ chacfaidís; chacfadh siad / gcacfaidís‡‡; gcacfadh siad‡‡ a chacfadh /
ar chacfadh*		 chacfaí / gcacfa퇇
subjunctive present go gcaca mé;
go gcacad†		 go gcaca tú;
go gcacair†		 go gcaca sé, sí go gcacaimid;
go gcaca muid		 go gcaca sibh go gcaca siad;
go gcacaid†		 — go gcactar
past dá gcacainn dá gcactá dá gcacadh sé, sí dá gcacaimis;
dá gcacadh muid		 dá gcacadh sibh dá gcacaidís;
dá gcacadh siad		 — dá gcactaí
imperative cacaim cac cacadh sé, sí cacaimis cacaigí;
cacaidh†		 cacaidís — cactar
verbal noun cac
past participle cactha

* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form
‡‡ Dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cac chac gcac
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • "cac" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “cacc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “caccaid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

K'iche'

Noun

cac

  1. (Classical K'iche') fire

Romanian

Verb

cac

  1. first-person singular present indicative of căca
  2. first-person singular present subjunctive of căca

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cacc (“dung, excrement”).

Noun

cac m (genitive singular caca, no plural)

  1. excrement
  2. (vulgar) shit
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish caccaid (“excretes”, verb), from cacc (“dung, excrement”).

Verb

cac (past chac, future cacaidh, verbal noun cac or cacadh, past participle cacte)

  1. (slang) excrete, defecate
  2. (slang, vulgar) shit

References
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “cacc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “caccaid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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