cac in Old English

IPA: /kɑk/ [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps derived from *cacian (“to defecate”), from Latin cacō (“I shit”). Etymology templates: {{unk|ang|title=uncertain}} uncertain, {{m|ang|*cacian|t=to defecate}} *cacian (“to defecate”), {{der|ang|la|cacō|t=I shit}} Latin cacō (“I shit”) Head templates: {{head|ang|nouns|nominative plural|cacas|||g=m|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} cac m (nominative plural cacas), {{ang-noun|m|cacas}} cac m (nominative plural cacas) Inflection templates: {{ang-decl-noun-a-m|cac}}, {{ang-decl-noun|cac|cacas|cac|cacas|caces|caca|cace|cacum|num=|title=|type=strong a-stem}} Forms: cacas [nominative, plural], strong [table-tags], cac [nominative, singular], cacas [nominative, plural], cac [accusative, singular], cacas [accusative, plural], caces [genitive, singular], caca [genitive, plural], cace [dative, singular], cacum [dative, plural]

[Show JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "title": "uncertain"
      },
      "expansion": "uncertain",
      "name": "unk"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "*cacian",
        "t": "to defecate"
      },
      "expansion": "*cacian (“to defecate”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "cacō",
        "t": "I shit"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin cacō (“I shit”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Of uncertain origin. Perhaps derived from *cacian (“to defecate”), from Latin cacō (“I shit”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cacas",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-decl-noun-a-m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cac",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cacas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cac",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cacas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caces",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cace",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cacum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "nominative plural",
        "4": "cacas",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "cac m (nominative plural cacas)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "cacas"
      },
      "expansion": "cac m (nominative plural cacas)",
      "name": "ang-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cac"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun-a-m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cac",
        "2": "cacas",
        "3": "cac",
        "4": "cacas",
        "5": "caces",
        "6": "caca",
        "7": "cace",
        "8": "cacum",
        "num": "",
        "title": "",
        "type": "strong a-stem"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "english": "shithouse, latrine",
          "word": "cachūs"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dung, excrement"
      ],
      "id": "en-cac-ang-noun-xS7C-OBz",
      "links": [
        [
          "dung",
          "dung"
        ],
        [
          "excrement",
          "excrement"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "*cacian"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɑk/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cac"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "categories": [
    "gd:Feces"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "shithouse, latrine",
      "word": "cachūs"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "title": "uncertain"
      },
      "expansion": "uncertain",
      "name": "unk"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "*cacian",
        "t": "to defecate"
      },
      "expansion": "*cacian (“to defecate”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "cacō",
        "t": "I shit"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin cacō (“I shit”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Of uncertain origin. Perhaps derived from *cacian (“to defecate”), from Latin cacō (“I shit”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cacas",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-decl-noun-a-m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cac",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cacas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cac",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cacas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caces",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cace",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cacum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "nominative plural",
        "4": "cacas",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "cac m (nominative plural cacas)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "cacas"
      },
      "expansion": "cac m (nominative plural cacas)",
      "name": "ang-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cac"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun-a-m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cac",
        "2": "cacas",
        "3": "cac",
        "4": "cacas",
        "5": "caces",
        "6": "caca",
        "7": "cace",
        "8": "cacum",
        "num": "",
        "title": "",
        "type": "strong a-stem"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "*cacian"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old English lemmas",
        "Old English masculine a-stem nouns",
        "Old English masculine nouns",
        "Old English nouns",
        "Old English palindromes",
        "Old English terms derived from Latin",
        "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Old English terms with unknown etymologies"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dung, excrement"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dung",
          "dung"
        ],
        [
          "excrement",
          "excrement"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɑk/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cac"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Old English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"cac" meaning in Old English

Noun