cacabus

Latin

Alternative forms

• cāccabus

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάκκαβος (kákkabos), a loanword ultimately of Semitic or Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.ka.bʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.ka.bus]
• Hyphenation: cā‧ca‧bus

Noun

cācabus m (genitive cācabī); second declension

1. cooking pot

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cācabus	cācabī
genitive	cācabī	cācabōrum
dative	cācabō	cācabīs
accusative	cācabum	cācabōs
ablative	cācabō	cācabīs
vocative	cācabe	cācabī

Derived terms

• cācabāceus
• cācabātus
• cācabulus
• *cascabellus (Vulgar Latin)

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cacabo
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: cácabu
  • Spanish: cácabo

Through Vulgar Latin *cacculus / *cacclus:

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: cacho
  • Portuguese: caco
  • Spanish: cacho
• Borrowings:
  • → Old High German: chachala
    • Middle High German: kachel, kachele
      • Alemannic German: Chachele
      • German: Kachel (see there for further descendants)

References

• “cacabus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "cacabus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cacabus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.