ćaćo

See also: caco, Caco, cacó, cacò, caço, caco-, and čačo

Romani

Alternative forms

• chacho (Anglicized)
• čačo (Pan-Vlax)

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀘𑁆𑀘 (sacca), from Ashokan Prakrit 𑀲𑀘 (saca), from Sanskrit सत्य (satya, “true”). Cognates include Hindi सच्चा (saccā, “true”).

Adjective

ćaćo (feminine ćaći, plural ćaće)

1. (International Standard) true

Derived terms

• ćaćipen

References

• Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “čačó”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 46
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “ćać/o, -i pl. -e”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 104
• Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “ćaćo”, in ニューエクスプレス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 135