caco
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]
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kakāō, from a Proto-Indo-European root *kakka-.
Compare Old Irish cacc, Ancient Greek κακκάω (kakkáō), Middle Armenian քաք (kʻakʻ), Russian ка́кать (kákatʹ), and English cack.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.koː/, [ˈkäkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.ko/, [ˈkäːko]
Conjugation
Descendants
- Aromanian: cac, cãcari
- Asturian: cagar
- Catalan: cagar
- Dalmatian: cacuor
- → Middle Dutch: cacken
- Dutch: kakken
- Franco-Provençal: cacar
- French: chier, caguer
- Friulian: cjiâ, čhiâ
- Walloon: tchîr
- Italian: cacare
- Neapolitan: cacare
- Occitan: cagar
- Old Galician-Portuguese: cagar
- Romanian: căca, căcare
- Sardinian: cacare, cagai, cagare
- Sicilian: cacari
- Spanish: cagar
- Venetian: cagar
See also
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
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkako/ [ˈka.ko]
- Rhymes: -ako
- Syllabification: ca‧co
Further reading
- “caco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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