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Cāca, ae, f., a sister of Cacus, Lact. 1, 20, 36; Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 190.

* cācăbācĕus (cacc-), a, um, adj. [cacabus], of or pertaining to a kitchen-pot: motus, i.e. like the liquid boiling in a pot, Tert. adv. Herm. 41.

* cācăbātus (cacc-), a, um, adj. [cacabus], black, sooty, besmeared like a cooking-pot: aedificia (opp. immaculata), Paul. Nol. Ep. ad Serv. 32, 9.

cācăbo ( [brevemacr][brevemacr] Auct. Fragm. Aucup. 12), āre, v. n., to cackle; Gr. κακκαβίζω, as the natural cry of the partridge: cacabat hinc perdix, Carm. Philom. 19

cācăbŭlus (cacc-), i, m. dim. [cacabus], a small cooking-pot, a pot, vessel, Tert. Apol. 13; Arn. 6, p. 200; Apic. 4, 1.

cācăbus (cacc-), i, m., = κάκκαβος, a cooking-pot: vas ubi coquebant cibum, ab eo caccabum appellarunt, Varr. L. L. 5, 27, 36: aeneus, Col. 12, 46, 1: argenteus, Dig. 34, 2, 20; 33, 7, 18, § 3: novus, Col. 12, 48, 5: figuli, id. 12, 41, 2: fictilis, Scrib. Comp. 220; Stat. S. 4, 9, 45.

căcālĭa, ae, f., = κακαλία, a plant, called also leontice, acc. to Sprengel: Cacalia verbascifolia, Sibth.; acc. to Schneid. colt’sfoot, in pure Latin, tussilago, Plin. 25, 11, 85, § 135; 26, 6, 15, § 29.

* căcātŭrĭo, īre, v. n. desid. [caco], to desire to go to stool, Mart. 11, 77.

căcemphăton, i, n., = κακέμφατον, ill-sounding, a low or improper expression, Isid. Orig. 1, 83, 5; cf. Quint. 8, 3, 47; Serv. ad Verg. G. 2, 13.

căchecta, ae, m., = καχέκτης (in bad physical condition), one that is in a consumption; plur., Plin. 28, 9, 33, § 125; 32. 10, 39, § 117.

căchectĭcus, a, um, adj., = καχεκγικός, hectic, consumptive, cachectic, Plin. 32, 10, 39, § 117.

căchexĭa, ae, f., = καχεξία, a consumption, wasting, cachexy, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 6, 80 sqq.; 4, 2, 18 (in Cels. 3, 32, as Gr.).

căchinnābĭlis, e, adj. [cachinno] (Appuleian).

  1. I. Capable of laughing, laughing: homo animal cachinnabile, App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 33, 20.
  2. II. Of or pertaining to immoderate laughter: risus, App. M. 3, p. 132, 20.

căchinnātĭo, ōnis, f. [cachinno], a violent laughing, immoderate laughter: sine ullā suspitione nimiae suspitionis, Auct. Her. 3, 14, 25: ut si ridere concessum sit, vituperetur tamen cachinnatio, Cic. Tusc. 4, 31, 66.

1. căchinno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. [like καχάζω or καγχάζω; Sanscr. kakk; and our titter, onomatop.], to laugh aloud, laugh immoderately.

  1. I. Lit. (class. but rare): famulae furtim cachinnant, Lucr. 4, 1176; 1, 919; 2, 976: ridere convivae; cachinnare ipse Apronius, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 25, § 62; Suet. Vesp. 5; Aur. Vict. Epit. 28.
    With the acc. of that which one laughs at: exitum meum cachinnant, App. M. 3, p. 132, 25.
  2. * II. Poet. (v. Liddell and Scott under καχλάζω, γέλως, γέλασμα, and Blomfield. Aesch. Prom. 90) of the sea, to plash, ripple, roar: suavisona echo crepitu clangente cachinnat, Att. ap. Non. p. 463, 16 (Trag. Rel. v. 572 Rib.).

* 2. căchinno, ōnis, m. [1. cachinno], one who laughs violently, a laugher, derider, καγχαστής, Pers. 1, 12.

căchinnosus, a, um, adj. [cachinno], given to loud laughter (late Lat.), Cael. Aur. Acut. 1, 3, 41.

căchinnus, i, m. [cachinno], a loud laugh, immoderate laughter, a laugh in derision, a jeering.

  1. I. Lit. (class in prose and poetry; also in plur.): tum dulces esse cachinni consuerant, Lucr. 5, 1396; so id. 5, 1402: in quo Alcibiades cachinnum dicitur sustulisse, to have set up a loud laugh, Cic. Fat. 5, 10; Suet. Aug. 98: tollere, Hor. A. P. 113: cachinnos irridentium commovere, Cic. Brut. 60, 216: res digna tuo cachinno, Cat. 56, 2; 31, 14; 13, 5: securus, Col. 10, 280: perversus, Ov. A. A. 3, 287: major, Juv. 3, 100; 11, 2: rigidus, id. 10, 31: temulus, Pers. 3, 87: effusus in cachinnos, Suet. Calig. 32: cachinnum edere, id. ib. 57: cachinnos revocare, id. Claud. 41.
  2. * II. Poet., of the sea (cf. 1, cachinno, II.), a plashing, rippling, roaring: leni resonant plangore cachinni, Cat. 64, 273 (cf. Aesch. Prom. 90’ ποντίων τε κυμάτων ὐνήριθμον γέλασμα).

cachla, ae, f., = κάχλα, a plant, also called buphthalmos, oxeye, Plin. 25, 8, 42, § 82.

cachrys, yos, f., = [?KA/XRUS (KA/GXRUS ?]).

  1. I. An appendage to the catkin of certain trees in autumn, a cone, Plin. 16, 8, 11, § 30; Cels. 5, 18, n. 5; admixta cachry, Plin. 22, 22, 32, § 71; 27, 13, 109, § 134.
  2. II. The capsule of rosemary, Plin. 24, 11, 60, § 101.
  3. III. The white kernel of the plant crethmos, Plin. 26, 8, 50, § 82.

căco, āvi, ātum, āre, v. n. and a.,—κακάω, to go to stool, to be at stool.

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

căcŏēthĕs, is, n., = κακόηθες, τό (bad state or habit); in medic. lang., an obstinate, malignant disease, Cels. 5, 28, n 2; Plin. 24, 3, 3, § 7.
Plur. cacoëthe = κακοήθη, τά, Plin. 22, 25, 64, § 132; 24, 10, 47, § 78.
Hence,

  1. B. Trop., an incurable passion for writing or scribbling: insanabile Scribendi cacoëthes, Juv. 7, 52.

căcŏmĕter or căcŏmĕtrus, a, um, adj., faulty in metre, unmetrical, Juba ap. Prisc. Mer. Ter. 58.

Căcomnēmon, ŏnis, m., title of a mime of Laberius, Gell. 16, 7, 8.

căcŏphăton, i, n., a union of two or more disagreeable sounds which form an equivocal word or expression, cacophony, Quint. 8, 3.

căcŏphōnia, ae, f. [κακόσ-φωνή], a disagreeable sound formed by the meeting of syllables or words, cacophong, Mod. Lat.

căcŏsynthĕton, i, n., = κακοσύνθετον; in rhet., an incorrect connection of words (as, e. g. Verg. A. 9, 610): quod male collocatum, id κακοσύνθετον Vocant, Quint. 8, 3, 59; cf. Don. p. 1771 P.; Charis. p. 243 ib.; Serv. ad Verg. l. l.; Isid. Orig. 1, 33, 12; Lucil. ap. Vel. Long. p. 2214 P.

căcŏzēlĭa, ae, f., = κακοζηλία, a bad, faulty, awkward imitation, Sen. Contr. 4, 24 fin.; id. Suas. 7; Quint. 2, 3, 9 (written as Greek, id. 8, 6, 73; cf. κακόζηλον; id. 8, 3, 56); cf. Diom. p. 446 P.

căcŏzēlus, a, um, adj., = κακόζηλος, a bad imitator (cf. cacozelia), * Suet. Aug. 86; Ascon. Cic. Caecil. 6, 21; cf. Quint. 8, 3, 56 sqq.

cactus, i, m., = κάκτος,

  1. I. a prickly plant with edible stalks, etc., found in Sicily, Spanish artichoke: Cynara cardunculus, Linn.; Plin. 21, 16, 57, § 97.
  2. II. Trop., any thing thorny, unpleasant: eradicato omni cacto et rubo subdolae familiaritatis, Tert. Pall. 2 fin.

căcŭla (cacula, Plaut. Ps. Arg. 2, 13 sq.), ae, m. [Sanscr. cak-, to help; cf. calon; v. Paul. ex Fest. s. h. v. p. 45 Müll.; Fest. s. v. procalare, p. 225 ib.], a servant, esp. the servant of a soldier: cacula = servus militis (militaris? cf. the passage foll., from Plaut.), Fest. p. 35: cacula δοῦλος στρατιώτου, Gloss.: video caculam militarem me futurum, Plaut. Trin. 3. 2, 98; so id. Ps. Arg. 4; and perh., acc. to the MSS., also Juv. 9, 61, where Jahn reads casulis; cf. Weber, Juv. Excurs. in h. l.

căcŭlātum = servitium, servitude, Paul. ex Fest. p. 46 Müll. [cacula].

căcūmen, ĭnis, n. [etym. dub.], the extreme end, extremity, or point of a thing; the peak, top, utmost point.

  1. I. Lit. (whether horizontal or perpendicular; while culmen is an extremity projecting in height; v. Doed. Syn.; in the poets freq.; in prose rare before the Aug. per.; not in Cic.): ut altis Arboribus vicina cacumina summa terantur Inter se, the extreme top, Lucr. 1, 898.
    So of tree-tops: umbrosa cacumina, Verg. E. 2, 3: fracta, id. ib. 9, 9; 6, 28; id. G. 2, 29; 2, 307; Ov. M. 1, 346; 1, 552; 1, 567; 8, 257; 8, 716; 8, 756; 9, 389; 10, 140; 10, 193; 13, 833; 15, 396; Quint. 8, 3, 10; 1, 2, 26: arborum cacumina, Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 147: ficorum, pirorum, malorum, Col. 3, 21, 11: olivae, id. 5, 11, 14 and 15; 11, 3, 37; Pall. Jan. 15, 15; id. Febr. 25, 28; id. Mart. 10, 23; 10, 35; id. Apr. 4, 1; Veg. 4, 4, 9 al.: harundinis, Plin. 16, 36, 64, § 158.
    Of grass, the points of the blades, Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 12: praeacutis (ramorum) cacuminibus, Caes. B. G. 7, 73; Lucr. 6, 459.
    Of the summits, peaks of mountains, Liv. 7, 34, 4; Lucr. 6, 464; Cat. 64, 240; Verg. A. 3, 274; Hor. Epod. 16, 28; Ov. M. 1, 310; 1, 317; 1, 666; 6, 311; 8, 797; 7, 804; 9, 93; Luc. 7, 75, Plin. 3, 16, 20, § 117; 6, 7, 7, § 20 al.
    Of other things: pilorum, Auct. B. Afr. 47: atomi, Lucr. 1, 600: cujusque rei, id. 1, 750: ovi, Plin. 10, 52, 74, § 145; 10. 54, 75, § 151: metae, id. 36, 5, 4, § 31: pyramidis, id. 36, 12, 17, § 79: membrorum, id. 11, 37. 88, § 219: ignis, Luc. 1, 551: incurvum, of the elephant’s back, Sil. 9, 584.
  2. II. Trop.
    1. A. The end, limit: donec alescundi summum tetigere cacumen, until they have completely attained the limit of their growth, Lucr. 2, 1130: ad summum donec venere cacumen, to the height of perfection, id. 5, 1456: famae, Laber. ap. Macr. S. 2, 7.
    2. B. As a gram. t. t., the mark of accent placed over a letter, Mart. Cap. 3, § 273.

căcūmĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [cacumen], to point, make pointed (prob. formed by Ovid): summas cacuminat aures, Ov. M. 3, 195: saxoque cacuminat ensem, Sid. Carm. 7, 414: ova cacuminata, Plin. 10, 52, 74, § 145: apex in conum cacuminatus, Sid. Ep. 2, 2.

1. Cācus, i, m., = Κᾶκος, son of Vulcan, contemporary with Evander, a giant of immense physical strength, who dwelt in a cave on Mount Aventinus, and troubled the whole region around by his robberies; he robbed even Hercules of the cattle of Geryon, and was on that account slain by him, Ov. F. 1, 543 sq.; Liv. 1, 7, 5 sq.; Verg. A. 8, 190 sq., and Serv. in h. l.; Prop. 4 (5), 9, 7; 4 (5), 9, 16; Col. 1, 3, 6; Juv. 5, 125; Sol. 1, §§ 7 and 18.

2. căcus, i, m. [perh. κακός; cf. Engl. villain, rascal, as designations of a servant], a servant, Inscr. Vellerm. 7, 1, 27.