caca

See also: Caca, caça, caçà, cáca, căca, and ćaća

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)

  1. (childish) Shit

Synonyms

  • cack; see also Thesaurus:feces

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Latin cacō (“I defecate”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.ka/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

caca m (plural cacas)

  1. (childish) poo (childish word for excrement)
    Pipi, caca, popo : histoire anecdotique de la scatologie. (Book title)

Derived terms

Further reading

Irish

Noun

caca

  1. genitive singular of cac

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

Verb

caca

  1. third-person singular present indicative of cacare
  2. second-person singular imperative of cacare

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

cacā

  1. second-person singular present imperative of cacō

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

Papiamentu

Noun

caca (plural caca)

  1. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): Poo, caca.

Verb

caca

  1. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): To poo.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.kɐ/
  • Rhymes: -aka

Noun

caca f (plural cacas)

  1. (childish or euphemistic) crap; excrement

Synonyms

Romanian

Noun

caca

  1. (childish) poop, poo; something dirty

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

caca

  1. genitive singular of cac

Adjective

caca

  1. dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, unpleasant, yukky

Spanish

Noun

caca f (plural cacas)

  1. poo, shit

Xhosa

Verb

-caca

  1. to be clear

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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