cacabus

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cācabus m (genitive cācabī); second declension

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

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.

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