cacabus

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Descendants

  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: cácabu
  • Old Spanish:
  • 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.