caco
Portuguese, noun
caco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “shard; piece (broken piece of ceramic or glass)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a cedilla, caço is a different word: “ladle”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fragmento ou pedaço quebrado de louça, barro, vidro, mármore etc”.
What does caco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshard; piece (broken piece of ceramic or glass)
- 2
masculinejunk
- 3
masculinewreck
Estou um caco total.
- 4
colloquialmasculinehead
- 5
masculinead-lib
noun
- 1
masculineladle
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of caçar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. fragmento ou pedaço quebrado de louça, barro, vidro, mármore etc 2. qualquer fragmento ou estilhaço 3. vaso de barro ou outra alfaia de pouco valor (também usado no plural) 4. a parte ou porção restante de algo já gasto pelo uso ou desgastado pelo tempo (por exemplo, utensílio)
noun: 1. colher comprida para tirar líquidos 2. utensílio de cozinha, frigideira
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of caco
- cacos plural
- caços plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to caco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is caco in Portuguese?
caco appears 2.0 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).