caco
See also: Caco, cacó, cacò, caço, caco-, ćaćo, and čačo
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈka.ko/
- Rhymes: -ako
- Hyphenation: cà‧co
Etymology 1
Singularization of cachi, originated by the wrong belief that "cachi" is the plural form[1].
Noun
caco m (plural cachi)
- Alternative form of cachi (fruit)
Verb
caco
- first-person singular present indicative of cacare
References
- “Cachi: un frutto, un colore - Si dice o non si dice?”, in (please provide the title of the work) (in italian), Corriere della Sera - dizionari, (please provide a date or year)
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kakāō, from a Proto-Indo-European root *kakka-.
Compare Old Irish cacc, Ancient Greek κακκάω (kakkáō), Middle Armenian քաք (kʿakʿ), Russian ка́кать (kákatʹ), and English cack.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.koː/, [ˈkäkoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.ko/, [ˈkäːko]
Verb
cacō (present infinitive cacāre, perfect active cacāvī, supine cacātum); first conjugation
- (vulgar) I defecate, shit, pass excrement.
- c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Poem 23 :
- Culus tibi purior salillo est,
nec toto decies cacas in anno.- Your anus is purer than a little salt-cellar,
and you defecate no more than ten times in a whole year.
- Your anus is purer than a little salt-cellar,
- Culus tibi purior salillo est,
- 38 CE – 104 CE, Martial, Epigrammata IX.69:
- Cum futuis, Polycharme, soles in fine cacare.
- When you fuck, Polycharmus, you are accustomed to shitting afterwards.
- Cum futuis, Polycharme, soles in fine cacare.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of cacō (first conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | cacō | cacās | cacat | cacāmus | cacātis | cacant |
| imperfect | cacābam | cacābās | cacābat | cacābāmus | cacābātis | cacābant | |
| future | cacābō | cacābis | cacābit | cacābimus | cacābitis | cacābunt | |
| perfect | cacāvī | cacāvistī | cacāvit | cacāvimus | cacāvistis | cacāvērunt, cacāvēre | |
| pluperfect | cacāveram | cacāverās | cacāverat | cacāverāmus | cacāverātis | cacāverant | |
| future perfect | cacāverō | cacāveris | cacāverit | cacāverimus | cacāveritis | cacāverint | |
| passive | present | cacor | cacāris, cacāre | cacātur | cacāmur | cacāminī | cacantur |
| imperfect | cacābar | cacābāris, cacābāre | cacābātur | cacābāmur | cacābāminī | cacābantur | |
| future | cacābor | cacāberis, cacābere | cacābitur | cacābimur | cacābiminī | cacābuntur | |
| perfect | cacātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | cacātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | cacātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | cacem | cacēs | cacet | cacēmus | cacētis | cacent |
| imperfect | cacārem | cacārēs | cacāret | cacārēmus | cacārētis | cacārent | |
| perfect | cacāverim | cacāverīs | cacāverit | cacāverīmus | cacāverītis | cacāverint | |
| pluperfect | cacāvissem | cacāvissēs | cacāvisset | cacāvissēmus | cacāvissētis | cacāvissent | |
| passive | present | cacer | cacēris, cacēre | cacētur | cacēmur | cacēminī | cacentur |
| imperfect | cacārer | cacārēris, cacārēre | cacārētur | cacārēmur | cacārēminī | cacārentur | |
| perfect | cacātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | cacātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | cacā | — | — | cacāte | — |
| future | — | cacātō | cacātō | — | cacātōte | cacantō | |
| passive | present | — | cacāre | — | — | cacāminī | — |
| future | — | cacātor | cacātor | — | — | cacantor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | cacāre | cacāvisse | cacātūrum esse | cacārī | cacātum esse | cacātum īrī | |
| participles | cacāns | — | cacātūrus | — | cacātus | cacandus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| cacandī | cacandō | cacandum | cacandō | cacātum | cacātū | ||
Derived terms
- cacātor
- cacātus
- concacō
Descendants
- Aromanian: cac, cãcari
- Asturian: cagar
- Catalan: cagar
- Dalmatian: cacuor
- Dutch: kakken
- Franco-Provençal: cacar
- French: chier, caguer
- Friulian: cjiâ, čhiâ
- Walloon: tchîr
- Galician: cagar
- Italian: cacare
- Occitan: cagar
- Portuguese: cagar
- Romanian: căca, căcare
- Sardinian: cacare, cagai, cagare
- Sicilian: cacari
- Spanish: cagar
- Venetian: cagar
See also
- dēfaecō
References
- “caco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Portuguese
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *cacculus, from Latin caccabus (“pot”), see also Galician cacho (“broken container, broken piece of a container”) and Spanish cacho.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈka.ku/
- Rhymes: -aku
- Hyphenation: ca‧co
Noun
caco m (plural cacos)
- shard; piece (broken piece)
- (by extension) junk
- (figuratively) wreck
- Estou um caco total. ― I'm a total wreck.
- (colloquial) head
- (theatre, drama, TV, film) ad-lib
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin Cacus, a mythological thief.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkako/ [ˈka.ko]
- Rhymes: -ako
- Syllabification: ca‧co
Noun
caco m (plural cacos)
- (colloquial) thief
- Synonym: ladrón
Further reading
- “caco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014