κάκκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kakka- (to defecate).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κάκκη • (kákkē) f (genitive κάκκης); first declension

  1. dung, excrement

Inflection

Descendants

  • Vulgar Latin: *caca, *cacca

References

  • κάκκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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