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caca

Syllables: ca·caUK/ˈkɑːkə//ˈkɑkə/

caca noun: excrement; feces.

Noun

caca (uncountable)

  1. (childish) Excrement; feces.
    Synonyms:
    cack

Proper noun capitalized: Caca

Caca

  1. (Roman) goddess of the hearth.

Synonyms of caca

Origin of caca

From cack (“to defecate in (one's clothes), crap one's pants”), or from Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”); either way, ultimately from Latin cacare (“to shit, defecate”). 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”).

The sister of Cacus, which see.

Words that rhyme with caca

Questions about caca

What does caca mean?
Caca means excrement; feces.
What part of speech is caca?
Caca can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce caca?
Caca is pronounced /ˈkɑːkə/ (UK).

Words near caca in the dictionary

  1. cabwomen
  2. Cabécar
  3. Cabécars
  4. cabécou
  5. cac
  6. caca
  7. Cacace
  8. Cacaces
  9. Cacafean
  10. cacafogo
  11. cacafogos

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