The corpus record — Latin

caco

caco · v. n

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Where it lives

Carmina 3 · 2.33/10k
Epigrammata 6 · 1.07/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k

What it meant

căco — Lewis & Short

căco, āvi, ātum, āre, v. n. and

I a.,—kaka/w, to go to stool, to be at stool.

I Neutr., Pompon. ap. Non. p. 84, 2: toto decies in anno, Cat. 23, 20; *Hor. S. 1, 8, 38; Mart. 12, 61, 10.—

II Act., Pompon. ap. Non. p. 84, 1 (Com. Rel. p. 209 Rib.): canes odorem mixtum cum merdis cacant, Phaedr. 4, 17, 25; Mart. 3, 89.—Also, to defile with excrement: cacata charta, Cat. 36, 1 and 20.

In the wild

cacabo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.6.p5
cacanti Martial, Epigrammata 3.44.11
cacantes Martial, Epigrammata 12.61.10
caco Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.10.p5
cacatum Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.8.38
cacat Martial, Epigrammata 1.92.11

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.