English
Etymology FromMiddle English cakken Old English *cacian Old English cac ( “ dung; excrement ” ) , of uncertain origin and relation. Cognate withEnglish cack 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 ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun caca (uncountable
( childish ) Excrement ;feces .
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Albanian
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Verb caca
first-person singular aorist indicative ofcac
Fijian
Etymology FromProto-Oceanic *qasam Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaʀsam
Noun caca
shrubby fern Synonym: borete
French
Etymology FromLatin cacāre ( “ todefecate ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun caca m plural cacas
( childish ) poo ( childish word for excrement ) Pipi,caca , popo : histoire anecdotique de la scatologie. (Book title)
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Galician
Etymology Onomatopoeic ;[ 1] substrate Proto-Celtic *kakkā Welsh cach English caca
Pronunciation
Noun caca m plural cacas
( childish ) poo ( childish ) filth ( figurative ) crap
References Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , editor (2006–2013 ), “caca ”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández ,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane ,María Álvarez de la Granja , editors (2003–2018 ), “caca ”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco , editor (2014–2024 ), “caca ”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega ,→ISSN
Irish
Noun caca
genitive singular ofcac
Mutation Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1 Borrowed fromEnglish kaka Maori kākā ( “ parrot ” ) .
Noun caca m invariable
New Zealand kaka (Nestor meridionalis Synonym: caca dei Maori Hypernym: nestore Coordinate term: chea
Further reading caca2 in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line , Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2 See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
Verb caca
inflection ofcacare third-person singular present indicative second-person singular imperative
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Latin
Verb cacā
second-person singular present imperative ofcacō
References "caca ", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis “caca ”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934 ),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette. “caca Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898 ),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities , New York: Harper & Brothers caca inRamminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)),Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700 [2] “caca William Smith, editor (1848 ),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , London: John Murray
Portuguese
Etymology FromVulgar Latin *cacca Ancient Greek κάκκη ( kákkē ,“ dung ” ) .
Pronunciation
Rhymes:-akɐ Hyphenation:ca‧ca
Noun caca f plural cacas
( childish or euphemistic ) crap ;excrement Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fezes
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Romanian
Etymology Borrowed fromFrench caca
Noun caca f uncountable
( childish ) poop ,poo ( childish ) dirty
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Scottish Gaelic
Noun caca
genitive singular ofcac
Adjective caca
dirty ,filthy ,foul ,nasty ,unpleasant ,yucky
Spanish
Etymology Borrowed from Latincacare , changing into a noun. Doublet ofcagar cagada
Pronunciation IPA (key ) : /ˈkaka/ [ˈka.ka] Rhymes:-aka Syllabification:ca‧ca
Noun caca f plural cacas ( childish , colloquial , informal )
poo An object that is dirty, unsanitary, or that should not be touched.( by extension )
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Xhosa
Etymology (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
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Verb -caca
to beclear
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