cacare

See also: caçaré

Italian

Alternative forms

• cagare (dialectal)

Etymology

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

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. (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

    Conjugation of cacàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)

infinitive	cacàre
auxiliary verb		avére	gerund		cacàndo
present participle		cacànte	past participle		cacàto
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	io	tu	lui/lei, esso/essa	noi	voi	loro, essi/esse
present	càco	càchi	càca	cachiàmo	cacàte	càcano
imperfect	cacàvo	cacàvi	cacàva	cacavàmo	cacavàte	cacàvano
past historic	cacài	cacàsti	cacò	cacàmmo	cacàste	cacàrono
future	cacherò	cacherài	cacherà	cacherémo	cacheréte	cacherànno
conditional	cacherèi	cacherésti	cacherèbbe, cacherébbe	cacherémmo	cacheréste	cacherèbbero, cacherébbero
subjunctive	che io	che tu	che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa	che noi	che voi	che loro, che essi/che esse
present	càchi	càchi	càchi	cachiàmo	cachiàte	càchino
imperfect	cacàssi	cacàssi	cacàsse	cacàssimo	cacàste	cacàssero
imperative	—	tu	Lei	noi	voi	Loro
		càca	càchi	cachiàmo	cacàte	càchino
negative imperative		non cacàre	non càchi	non cachiàmo	non cacàte	non càchino

Related terms

• cacca
• caca

Latin

Verb

cacāre

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

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• cacà (alt. spelling)

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

    Conjugation of cacà (first conjugation)

infinitive			cacà
gerund			cacanno
present participle			cacante
past participle			cacato
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je/i'	tu	isso/essa	nuje	vuje	lloro
	present	caco	cace	caca	cacammo	cacate	cacano
	imperfect	cacavo	cacave	cacava	cacavamo	cacavate	cacavano
	passato remòto	cacaje	cacaste	cacaje	cacajemo	cacastevo	cacajeno
	future	cacarraggio	cacarraje	cacarrà	cacarrimmo	cacarrite	cacarranno
	conditional	cacarria	cacarrisse	cacarria	cacarrissemo	cacarrissevo	cacarriano
compound tenses	passato pròssimo	Use the present tense of avè plus the past participle
	trapasato pròssimo	Use the imperfect tense of avè plus the past participle
	trapasato remòto	Use the passato remòto tense of avè plus the past participle
	futuro anteriore	Use the future tense of avè plus the past participle
	cunnizziunale passato	Use the conditional tense of avè plus the past participle
imperfect subjunctive		ca je/i'	ca tu	ca isso/ca essa	ca nuje	ca vuje	ca lloro
		cacasse	cacasse	cacasse	cacassemo	cacassevo	cacassero
imperative		-	tu	isso/essa	nuje	vuje	lloro
			caca	caca	cacammo	cacate	caceno

Related terms

• cacarella
• cacariare
• cacariello
• cacarone
• cacasotta
• cacata

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 Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano