Caca - Wiktionary

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/

• Audio (US):

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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.

Galician

Etymology

Onomatopoeic;[1] or either from a substrate language, from Proto-Celtic *kakkā. Compare Welsh cach and English caca.

Pronunciation

• IPA(key): /ˈkaka̝/

Noun

caca m (plural cacas)

1. (childish) poo
2. (childish) filth
3. (figurative) crap

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “caca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “caca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “caca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “caca”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Irish

Noun

caca

1. genitive singular of cac

Mutation

Mutated forms of caca

radical	lenition	eclipsis
caca	chaca	gcaca

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA(key): /ˈka.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: cà‧ca

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English kaka, itself a borrowing from Maori kākā (“parrot”).

Noun

caca m (invariable)

1. New Zealand kaka (Nestor meridionalis) Synonym: caca dei Maori Hypernym: nestore Coordinate term: chea

Further reading

• caca2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

caca

1. inflection of cacare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• acca

Latin

Verb

cacā

1. second-person singular present imperative of cacō

References

• "caca", 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)
• “caca”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “caca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caca in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “caca”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cacca, cognate with Ancient Greek κάκκη (kákkē, “dung”).

Pronunciation

• IPA(key): /ˈka.kɐ/

• Rhymes: -akɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧ca

Noun

caca f (plural cacas)

1. (childish or euphemistic) crap; excrement Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fezes

Derived terms

• caquinha

Descendants

• → Sranan Tongo: kaka

Further reading

• “caca”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “caca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “caca”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025, →ISBN
• “caca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French caca.

Noun

caca f (uncountable)

1. (childish) poop, poo
2. (childish) something dirty

Related terms

• căca

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

caca

1. genitive singular of cac

Adjective

caca

1. dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, unpleasant, yucky

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cacare, changing into a noun. Doublet of cagar. Compare cagada.

Pronunciation

• IPA(key): /ˈkaka/ [ˈka.ka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ca‧ca

Noun

caca f (plural cacas) (childish, colloquial, informal)

1. poo
2. An object that is dirty, unsanitary, or that should not be touched.
   1. (by extension) An expression of disapproval used to tell children not to touch or handle something.

Derived terms

• caca de luna
• caca de vaca

Related terms

• cagar
• encacado

Further reading

• “caca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Xhosa

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA(key): [kǀaːkǀa]

Verb

-caca

1. to be clear

Inflection

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