cacabus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάκκαβος (kákkabos), a loanword ultimately of Semitic or Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.ka.bus/, [ˈkäːkäbʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ka.bus/, [ˈkäːkäbus]
• Hyphenation: cā‧ca‧bus

Noun

cācabus m (genitive cācabī); second declension

1. cooking pot

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cācabus	cācabī
genitive	cācabī	cācabōrum
dative	cācabō	cācabīs
accusative	cācabum	cācabōs
ablative	cācabō	cācabīs
vocative	cācabe	cācabī

Derived terms

• cācabāceus
• cācabātus
• cācabulus
• *cacculus

Descendants

• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: cácabu
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: cácabo, (possibly) cachucha
• → Old High German: chachala
  • Alemannic German: Chachele
  • German: Kachel (see there for further descendants)

References

• “cacabus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cacabus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cacabus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.