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caca Meaning & Definition

ˈkä-ˌkä

What Does Caca Mean?

Caca is used as a noun meaning excrement.

Quick Facts About Caca

Part of speechnoun
Pronunciation/ˈkä-ˌkä/
Syllables2
Synonymscack
First known use1873

Caca Definition (Noun)

  1. excrement

Synonyms of Caca

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Word Forms & Grammar

caca

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caca (uncountable)

Origin of Caca

Origin 1: baby talk

Origin 2: 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”).

Origin 3: 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”).

First Known Use

1873

Pronouncing Caca

You say caca as /ˈkä-ˌkä/. It has 2 syllables, with the main stress on the first syllable (kä).

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