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”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːkə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑkə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːkə
• Hyphenation: ca‧ca

caca (uncountable)

1. (childish) Excrement; feces.

• cack; see also Thesaurus:feces

• AACC, ACCA, CAAC, CCAA, acca

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sat͡sa/

caca

1. first-person singular aorist indicative of cac

Borrowed from Latin cacare. Probably it has an onomatopoeic origin. Compare Catalan cagada.

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈka.kə]

• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈka.ka]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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caca f (plural caques) (colloquial, informal)

1. poo
2. an object that is dirty, unsanitary, or that should not be touched (told to kids)

From Proto-Central Pacific *caca, via reduplication of Proto-Oceanic *qasam, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qasam, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qasam, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaʀsam.

caca

1. synonym of borete (“golden leather fern (Acrostichum aureum)”)

   Keitou dau kana caca ni keitou tiko ena baravi.

   We usually eat mangrove fern when we stay at the coast.

• Gatty, Ronald (2009), “borete”, in Fijian–English Dictionary‎^[2], Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 26

From Latin cacāre (“to defecate, to shit”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.ka/

  • Audio:

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  • Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• (Louisiana, noun / adjective) IPA^(key): [ka.ka]
• (Louisiana, verb) IPA^(key): [ka.ka], [kɛk]
• Homophones: cac (one pronunciation), cacas

caca m or (Louisiana) f (plural cacas)

1. (childish) poo, poop (childish word for excrement, fecal matter, dung, crap)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:matière fécale

   • 2010, Albert Valdman, et al., Dictionary of Louisiana French as Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities, page 97:

     J’ai marché dans la caca de vache.

     I stepped in cow dung.

   Pipi, caca, popo : histoire anecdotique de la scatologie. (Book title)

2. ellipsis of caca ravet (a species of tree)

caca (plural cacas)

1. (childish) resembling or reminiscent of poo, poop
   1. (particularly) (very) dirty, yucky, filthy, nasty

caca (defective)

1. (Louisiana, childish, intransitive) to poo, to poop

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:déféquer

   • 2010, Albert Valdman, et al., Dictionary of Louisiana French, page 97:

     Tu as caca sur le plancher.

     You pooped on the floor.

• cac

• “caca”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaka̝/

caca m (plural cacas)

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

• 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

caca

1. genitive singular of cac

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

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

caca m (invariable)

1. New Zealand kaka (Nestor meridionalis)

   Synonym: caca dei Maori

   Hypernym: nestore

   Coordinate term: chea

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

caca

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

• acca

cacā

1. second-person singular present imperative of cacō

• "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^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “caca”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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

• Rhymes: -akɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧ca

caca f (plural cacas)

1. (childish or euphemistic) crap; excrement

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fezes

• → Sranan Tongo: kaka

• “caca”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “caca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “caca”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “caca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French caca.

caca f (uncountable) (childish)

1. poop, poo
2. something dirty

Borrowed from Amdo Tibetan. Related to Tibetan དགྲ (dgra, “foe”).^[1]

• (Xunhua, Qinghai; Ili, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /ʝɑʝɑ/, /ʒɑʝɑ/
• (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /ʝɑjɑ/, /ʝɑʝɨ/

caca (3rd person possessive cacası, plural cacalar)

1. scorpion

   Yiriği cace, ağzı bal.

   (his/her) Heart is like scorpion, mouth is like honey.

• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985), “caca”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎^[4], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 121
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “caca”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[5], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 83
• 阿伊草·张进锋 [Salar: Ayso Cañ Cinfen] (2008), 乌璐别格 [Salar: Ulubeğ], 鄭初陽 [Salar: Çuyañ Yebey oğlı Ceñ], editors, 撒拉尔谚语 [Salar: Salar İbret Sözler, Salar Proverbs]‎^[6], China Salar Youth League, page 67
• Ma, Chengjun; Han, Lianye; Ma, Weisheng (December 2010), “caca”, in 米娜瓦尔·艾比布拉 [Minavar Abibra], editor, 撒维汉词典 [Sā-Wéi-Hàn cídiǎn, Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 147
• 马伟 [Ma Wei] (2016), “caca”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 [Qīnghǎi, Qinghai]: 青海师范大学 [Qinghai Normal University], unpublished finalized project manuscript (国家社会科学基金项目结项稿, 定稿; National Social Science Fund of China), page 37

caca

1. genitive singular of cac

caca

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

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

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

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

1. poo
2. an object that is dirty, unsanitary, or that should not be touched

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   1. (by extension) an expression of disapproval used to tell children not to touch or handle something

      (Can we add an example for this sense?)

• “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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [kǀaːkǀa]

-caca

1. to be clear

This verb needs an inflection-table template.