cacho

See also: Cacho and cachó

Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *caplum, from Late Latin capulum, from Latin capiō. Cognate to Portuguese cabo.

Noun

cacho m (plural cachos)

(collective) hand (bunch of bananas)
lock (length of hair)
(botany) raceme (an inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis)
(archaic) neck

Synonyms

(lock): mecha
(neck): pescoço

Derived terms

estar de cacho

Spanish

Etymology

Probably from a Vulgar Latin *cacclus, < *cacculus, from Latin caccabus (“pot”), see also Galician cacho (“broken container, broken piece of a container”) and Portuguese caco (“piece of pottery”).

Noun

cacho m (plural cachos)

piece
(Latin America) horn
(Chile, Peru, colloquial) shit, lemon, bomb (defective or inadequate or useless item or person)
(Chile, colloquial) annoying duty or work

Synonyms

(piece): pedazo, trozo
(horn): cuerno
(shit): maula, rollo
(annoying work): rollo

Verb

cacho

First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of cachar.

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