• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ko/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: cà‧co

Singularization of cachi, originated by the wrong belief that "cachi" is the plural form.^[1]

caco m (plural cachi)

1. alternative form of cachi (fruit)

caco

1. first-person singular present indicative of cacare

From Proto-Italic *kakāō, from a Proto-Indo-European root *kakka-.

Compare Old Irish cacc, Ancient Greek κακκάω (kakkáō), Middle Armenian քաք (kʻakʻ), Russian ка́кать (kákatʹ), and English cack.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.ko]

cacō (present infinitive cacāre, perfect active cacāvī, supine cacātum); first conjugation

1. (vulgar) to defecate, shit, pass excrement
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 23:

     Culus tibi purior salillo est,
     nec toto decies cacas in anno.

     Your anus is purer than a little salt-cellar,
     and you defecate no more than ten times in a whole year.

   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata 9.69:

     Cum futuis, Polycharme, soles in fine cacare.

     When you fuck, Polycharmus, you are accustomed to shitting afterwards.

• cacātor
• cacātus
• concacō

• dēfaecō

• “caco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Vulgar Latin *cacculus, from Latin caccabus (“pot”), see also Galician cacho (“broken container, broken piece of a container”) and Spanish cacho.

• Rhymes: -aku
• Hyphenation: ca‧co

caco m (plural cacos)

1. shard; piece (broken piece of ceramic or glass)
2. (by extension) junk
3. (figuratively) wreck

   Estou um caco total. ― I'm a total wreck.

4. (colloquial) head
5. (theatre, drama, TV, film) ad-lib

• “caco”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “caco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Latin Cacus, a mythological thief.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkako/ [ˈka.ko]
• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: ca‧co

caco m (plural cacos)

1. (colloquial) thief

   Synonym: ladrón

• “caco”, 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

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