caca

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”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːkə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑkə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːkə
• Hyphenation: ca‧ca

caca (uncountable)

1. (childish) Excrement; feces.

• cack; see also Thesaurus:feces

• AACC, ACCA, CAAC, CCAA, acca

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sat͡sa/

caca

1. first-person singular aorist indicative of cac

From Proto-Oceanic *qasam, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaʀsam.

caca

1. shrubby fern

   Synonym: borete

From Latin cacāre (“to defecate”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.ka/

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caca m (plural cacas)

1. (childish) poo (childish word for excrement)

   Pipi, caca, popo : histoire anecdotique de la scatologie. (Book title)

• faire caca
• faire un caca nerveux
• caca boudin

• “caca”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Onomatopoeic;^[1] or either from a substrate language, from Proto-Celtic *kakkā. Compare Welsh cach and English caca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaka̝/

caca m (plural cacas)

1. (childish) poo
2. (childish) filth
3. (figurative) crap

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “caca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “caca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “caca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

caca

1. genitive singular of cac

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: cà‧ca

Borrowed from English kaka, itself a borrowing from Maori kākā (“parrot”).

caca m (invariable)

1. New Zealand kaka (Nestor meridionalis)

   Synonym: caca dei Maori

   Hypernym: nestore

   Coordinate term: chea

• caca² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

caca

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

• acca

cacā

1. second-person singular present imperative of cacō

• "caca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “caca”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

From Vulgar Latin *cacca, cognate with Ancient Greek κάκκη (kákkē, “dung”).

• Rhymes: -akɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧ca

caca f (plural cacas)

1. (childish or euphemistic) crap; excrement

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fezes

• → Sranan Tongo: kaka

• “caca”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “caca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Borrowed from French caca.

caca f (uncountable)

1. (childish) poop, poo
2. (childish) something dirty

• căca

caca

1. genitive singular of cac

caca

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaka/ [ˈka.ka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ca‧ca

caca f (plural cacas) (childish, colloquial)

1. poo
2. An object that is dirty, unsanitary, or that should not be touched.
   1. (by extension) An expression of disapproval used to tell children not to touch or handle something.

• “caca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [kǀaːkǀa]

-caca

1. to be clear

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