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Caca¹

Where it comes from

The sister of Cacus, which see.

proper noun

  1. Roman goddess of the hearth.

caca²

  • /ˈkɑːkə/ UK
  • /ˈkɑkə/ US

Rhymes with -ɑːkə

Where it comes from

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”).

noun

  1. childish, uncountable Excrement; feces.

    Similar: cack

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"caca." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/caca. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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caca. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/caca

Chicago

"caca." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/caca.

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@misc{caca_2026,
  title = {caca},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/caca},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}