caca

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

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”).

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -ɑːkə
• Hyphenation: ca‧ca

Noun

caca (uncountable)

1. (childish) Excrement; feces.

Synonyms

• cack; see also Thesaurus:feces

Anagrams

• AACC, ACCA, CAAC, CCAA, acca

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sat͡sa/

Verb

caca

1. first-person singular aorist indicative of cac

Fijian

Etymology

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

Noun

caca

1. shrubby fern

   Synonym: borete

French

Etymology

From Latin cacāre (“to defecate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ka/

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Noun

caca m (plural cacas)

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

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

Derived terms

• faire caca
• faire un caca nerveux
• caca boudin

Further reading

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