cacare

See also: caçaré

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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. (transitive) to shit, to crap [auxiliary avere]
  3. (transitive, chiefly in the negative) to give a shit about (someone)

Conjugation

Latin

Verb

cacāre

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

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cacāre.

Pronunciation

  • (Naples) IPA(key): [kaˈka]
  • Rhymes: -a

Verb

cacare (vulgar)

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

Conjugation

References

  • 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 Vocabulario del dialetto napolitano
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