cacabo
Latin
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ancient Greek; compare κακκαβίζω (kakkabízō, “cackle (of a bird)”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.ka.boː/, [ˈkäkäboː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.ka.bo/, [ˈkäːkäbo]
Verb
cacabō (present infinitive cacabāre, perfect active cacabāvī, supine cacabātum); first conjugation
- (intransitive) To cluck
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (to cluck): glōciō
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kaˈkaː.boː/, [käˈkäːboː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈka.bo/, [käˈkäːbo]
References
- “cacabo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cacabo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “cacabō”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 80
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