See also: caçaré

Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin cacāre, ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European root *kakka-. Compare Sicilian cacari.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kaˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ca‧cà‧re

Verb

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cacàre (first-person singular present càco, first-person singular past historic cacài, past participle cacàto, auxiliary avére) (vulgar)

  1. (intransitive) to shit, to crap [auxiliary avere]
  2. (intransitive, slang) to feel the need to defecate
  3. (transitive) to shit, to crap [auxiliary avere]
  4. (transitive, figurative) to make, to produce
  5. (transitive, chiefly in the negative) to give a shit about (someone)
  6. (transitive, rare) to have a baby
  7. (transitive, slang) to lord with shit
  8. (transitive) to expel something anally
  9. (transitive) to expel from the body
  10. (transitive) to cough up the money

Conjugation

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Latin

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Verb

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cacāre

  1. inflection of cacō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Neapolitan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin cacāre.

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Verb

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cacare (vulgar)

  1. (intransitive) to shit, crap
  2. (transitive) to soil with faeces
  3. (transitive) to give birth

Conjugation

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References

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  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 179: “cacare; caca 3” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “cacare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano
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