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”).
Synonyms
- cack; see also Thesaurus:feces
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ka/
Audio (file)
Noun
caca m (plural cacas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “caca” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Etymology
Onomatopoeic;[1] or either from a substrate language, from Proto-Celtic *kakkā. Compare Welsh cach and English caca.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkaka̝/
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.
- Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. caca.
Irish
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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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
Verb
caca
Latin
References
- caca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- caca in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈka.kɐ/
- Rhymes: -aka
Romanian
Scottish Gaelic
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