different between caca vs ketchup

English

Etymology

From Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”), of uncertain origin and relation. Cognate with English cack. Compare Latin cac? (“to defecate”), French caca (“excrement”), Basque kaka (“excrement”), Lithuanian kaka (“excrement”), Hungarian kaka (“excrement”), Italian cacca, Ancient Greek ????? (kákk?, “dung”), German kacken, Irish cac, Welsh cach, Cornish caugh, Breton cac'h, Aromanian cac, Scottish Gaelic cac, Romanian c?ca, Spanish caca (“excrement”).

Noun

caca (uncountable)

1. (childish) Excrement

Synonyms

• cack; see also Thesaurus:feces

Anagrams

• AACC, ACCA, CAAC, CCAA, acca

French

Etymology

From Latin cac? (“I defecate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ka/

Noun

caca m (plural cacas)

1. (childish) poo (childish word for excrement)

   Pipi, caca, popo : histoire anecdotique de la scatologie. (Book title)

Derived terms

• faire caca
• faire un caca nerveux

Further reading

• “caca” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

Onomatopoeic; or either from a substrate language, from Proto-Celtic *kakk?. Compare Welsh cach and English caca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kaka?/

Noun

caca m (plural cacas)

1. (childish) poo
2. (childish) filth
3. (figuratively) crap

References

• “caca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “caca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “caca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Noun

caca

1. genitive singular of cac

Mutation

Italian

Verb

caca

1. third-person singular present indicative of cacare
2. second-person singular imperative of cacare

Anagrams

• acca

Latin

Verb

cac?

1. second-person singular present imperative of cac?

References

• caca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• caca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• caca in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caca in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• caca in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.k?/
• Rhymes: -aka

Noun

caca f (plural cacas)

1. (childish or euphemistic) crap; excrement

   Synonyms: bosta, merda

Descendants

• ? Sranan Tongo: kaka

Romanian

Etymology

From French caca.

Noun

caca

1. (childish) poop, poo
2. (childish) something dirty

Related terms

• c?ca

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

caca

1. genitive singular of cac

Adjective

caca

1. dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, unpleasant, yukky

Spanish

Noun

caca f (plural cacas)

1. (childish, colloquial) poo

Derived terms

Related terms

• encacado
• cagar

Xhosa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k?a?k?a]

Verb

-caca

1. to be clear

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

English

Alternative forms

• catsup
• catchup (obsolete)
• ketsup (dated)

Etymology

Uncertain, but probably ultimately from Chinese via Malay kicap, from Min Nan ?? (kê-chiap, “fish broth”), though precise path is unclear – there are related words in various Chinese dialects, and it may have entered English directly from Chinese. Cognate to Indonesian kecap, ketjap (“soy sauce”). Various other theories exist – see Ketchup: Etymology for extended discussion.

First appeared in English in the late 17th century in reference to a Southeast Asian sauce encountered by British traders and sailors. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that it was commonly used in the 18th century to refer to a variety of similar sauces with varying ingredients—"anchovies, mushrooms, walnuts, and oysters being particularly popular"—but by the late 19th century the current tomato ketchup became the most popular form.

Catsup (earlier catchup) is an alternative Anglicization, still in use in the U.S.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?t?.?p/, /?k?t?.?p/
• Homophone: catch-up (one pronunciation)

Noun

ketchup (countable and uncountable, plural ketchups)

1. (uncountable) A tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes containing spices, onion or garlic, and (especially in the US) sweeteners.
2. (countable, now rare) Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes).
   • 1883, Cassell's Dictionary of Cookery (page lxxxiii)

     The bottles, however, were port bottles, but contained mushroom ketchup; […]

   • 2003, Inns and Bed and Breakfasts in Quebec 2003 (?Ulysses Travel Guides; page 46)

     To accompany meat, we prepare fruit ketchups and rhubarb chutney.

Usage notes

The spelling ketchup became significantly preferred in the United States due to the popularity of the Heinz brand, which shortly after its introduction in 1876 switched from catsup to this spelling to distinguish itself from competitors. Other major brands, such as Hunt, subsequently followed, with Del Monte only switching to ketchup in 1988.

This condiment is more commonly and somewhat ambiguously called tomato sauce outside of the Americas. In South Africa, the word ketchup is not generally understood.

Descendants

Translations

Verb

ketchup (third-person singular simple present ketchups, present participle ketchupping, simple past and past participle ketchupped)

1. (transitive) To cover with ketchup.
   • 1867, John Maddison Morton, Aunt Charlotte's maid: a farce in one act:

     It strikes me she's "ketchupped" the lot! I won't touch a morsel!

   • 1973, Horizon, page 15:

     "Well," said Chuck, ketchupping his hamburger, "I'd rather do without King Lear than put up with the human agony it sprang out of. I'd rather not have the Eroica than have the big bloody conqueror it tries to immortalize."

   • 2009, David Silverman, Twinkle, page 4:

     Their fellow diners, like their ketchupped grub, were appropriately dashed and splattered with paint and plaster, reading their Suns and Daily Mirror.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “ketchup”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Danish

Etymology

From English ketchup. Ultimately from Chinese. See English etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k??d??ub?]

Noun

ketchup c (singular definite ketchuppen, plural indefinite ketchupper)

1. (uncountable) ketchup (a tomate sauce with vinegar)
2. (countable) ketchup (a particular brand or type of ketchup)

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English ketchup. Ultimately from Chinese. See English etymology.

Pronunciation

Noun

ketchup m (plural ketchups, diminutive ketchupje n)

1. ketchup

Synonyms

• tomatenketchup

Derived terms

• curryketchup
• tomatenketchup

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English ketchup. Ultimately from Chinese. See English etymology.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /k?t.?œp/
• (France, Quebec) IPA^(key): /k?t.??p/

Noun

ketchup m (plural ketchups)

1. ketchup

Further reading

• “ketchup” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.t??up/, (rare) /?k?.t??ap/

Noun

ketchup m inan

1. Alternative spelling of keczup.

Declension

Further reading

• ketchup in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ketchup in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

ketchup m (plural ketchups)

1. Alternative spelling of catchup

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ketchup.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

ketchup m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. Alternative form of ke?ap

Spanish

Alternative forms

• kétchup

Etymology

Borrowed from English ketchup. Ultimately from Chinese. See English etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?t??up/, [ke?t??up]

Noun

ketchup m (plural ketchups)

1. ketchup

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?t???p/

Etymology

From English ketchup

Noun

ketchup c

1. ketchup

West Frisian

Etymology

From English ketchup

Noun

ketchup c (no plural)

1. ketchup