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cacho (3) m. (Noun) (Latin America) "horn;" (Colombia) "(marijuana) joint;" (Chile) "huckster;" (Ecuador) "humorous anecdote" 19th cent. Probably a term developed from cacho (4) "droopy," which can mean downward-facing horns. However, Corominas (1987) believes the origin is found in cacho (1), today meaning "piece" but in antiquity meaning "pot," because a horn can hold liquid like a pot. This is less convincing when viewed from historical and technological perspectives: horns were not vessels of liquid themselves but the nozzles, fixed to the mouth of a leather bota bag. Indo-European Romance Portuguese cátulo Corominas, J. Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana. 3rd ed. Madrid: Gredos. 1987. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
cacho (4) (Adjective) "droopy" (especially of cattle horns) From Latin coactus "joined together," from cogere "to assemble." From con-, a perfectizing prefix, and agere "to do" (see -igar). Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
cacho (5) (Noun) (Andalusia) "hit;" (Salamanca) "profound sentimentality" Both the Andalusian and Salamancan meanings are said by Tibón (1988) to be from Vulgar Latin cacculus "small thing," "pot," but originally meaning "pottery sherd;" but the semantic evolution seems obscure. For a continued etymology of cacculus, see cacho (1). Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman. Online. Ed. by É. Buchi & W. Schweickard. 2018. http://www.atilf.fr/DERom. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
cada (Preposition) "each," "every" 10th cent. From Latin cata "by," from Ancient Greek κάτα (káta) "concerning;" "downwards." From Proto-Indo-European *km̥t- "down" Indo-European Romance Asturian cada, Portuguese cada, Galician cada, Catalan cada, Romanian câte Indo-Iranian Hittite kattan "below" Beekes, R. S. P. Etymological Dictionary of Greek. BRILL. 2014. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
caer (Verb) "to fall" 10th cent. From Latin cadere 'id.' From Proto-Italic *kad-e/o- 'id.' From Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d- 'id.' Indo-European Romance Asturian cayer, Portuguese cair, Galician caer, Catalan caure, French choir, Italian cadere, Aromanian cad, Romanian cădea Hellenic Ancient Greek κεκαδών (?) (kekadón) "robbing" Indo-Iranian Sanskrit śad- "to fall" Following the Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, there were two ways that Latin cadere was syllabified in Proto-Romance, which arose from disagreement over accentuation on the penultimate or the primary syllable. The first, Proto-Romance /ˈkad‑e‑re/, shows an accented first syllable kad-, and is reflected in Catalan and a number of languages like Istriot cài. The second, Proto-Romance /kaˈd‑e‑re/, shows an accented penult -de-, and is reflected in Spanish and the other Romance cognates listed above. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
café m. (Noun) "coffee" Early 18th cent. From Italian caffè, from Turkish kahve, from Arabic qahwa, possibly from the name Kaffa, a former kingdom and region in Ethiopia that exported coffee. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
caja f. (Noun) "box," "case" 13th cent. From Catalan caixa 'id.' or, less likely, from Occitan caissa 'id.' Both from Latin capsa 'id.,' from capere "to take" (see caber). Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
caliente (Adjective) "hot" 13th cent. From Latin calentem, accusative of calens 'id.' From calere "to be hot," "to be warm." From Proto-Italic *kalē- 'id.' From Proto-Indo-European *ḱlh₁-eh₁- 'id.' From a root *ḱel- "warm." Indo-European Romance Asturian caliente, Portuguese quente, Galician quente, Catalan calent Celtic Middle Welsh clyd Germanic Old Norse hlár, Old High German lāo Balto-Slavic Lithuanian šil̃tas, Latvian sìlts Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
callar (Verb) "to silence" 12th cent. From Vulgar Latin *callare "to lower," from Latin calare 'id.,' from Greek χαλᾶν (k^halan) 'id.' Of unknown origin. Indo-European Romance Asturian callar, Portuguese calar, Galician calar, Catalan callar, Italian calare "to lower" Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman. Online. Ed. by É. Buchi & W. Schweickard. 2018. http://www.atilf.fr/DERom. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
calma f. (Noun) "calm" 14th cent. Probably from Catalan calma "calm," "calm seas" or Italian calma 'id.,' from Latin cauma "heat of a midday sun," from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma) "heat," from Ancient Greek καίειν (kaíen) "to burn." Mycenaean -ka-wo. According to Beekes (2014), from a pre-form κάϝω (káwo). From Proto-Indo-European keh₂-u̯- 'id.' Indo-European Hellenic Attic κάω (káo), Mycenaean -ka-wo The word was originally a nautical term for the heat during midday, and came also to mean the tranquil waters during that time. Beekes, R. S. P. Etymological Dictionary of Greek. BRILL. 2014. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.