cacho

Probably from a Vulgar Latin *cacclus, from *cacculus, from Latin caccabus (“pot”); compare Spanish cacho and Portuguese caco (“piece of pottery”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkat͡ʃo̝/

cacho m (plural cachos)

1. fragment, piece, portion, bit

   Synonyms: anaco, pedazo, porción, trisco

2. moment

   Synonyms: bocado, momento

3. hopscotch

   Synonyms: mariola, peletre

4. boiled potato

   Synonym: cachelo

• cachelo
• escachar

cacho m (plural cachos)

1. bowl

   Synonym: cunca

2. holed bowl used for roasting chestnuts
3. shell of a crab
4. (figuratively) head

• cacharro
• Cacharrón
• cachaza
• cacheira
• cachola
• escochar

From Vulgar Latin *caplum, from Late Latin capulum (“handle”), from Latin capiō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkat͡ʃo̝/

cacho m (plural cachos)

1. bunch (of grapes)

   Synonym: acio

2. shoal (of fishes)

   Synonyms: cardume, manda

• ourizo cacho

• “cacho” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cacho” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cacho” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cacho” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cacho” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cacho” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Vulgar Latin *caplum, from Late Latin capulum, from Latin capiō. Cognate to Portuguese cabo.

cacho m (plural cachos)

1. (collective) hand (bunch of bananas)
2. lock (length of hair)
3. (botany) raceme (an inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis)
4. (archaic) neck

• (lock): mecha
• (neck): pescoço

• estar de cacho

Probably from a Vulgar Latin *cacclus, < *cacculus, from Latin caccabus (“pot”), see also Galician cacho (“broken container, broken piece of a container”) and Portuguese caco (“piece of pottery”).

cacho m (plural cachos)

1. piece
2. (Latin America) horn
3. (Chile, Peru, colloquial) shit, lemon, bomb (defective or inadequate or useless item or person)
4. (Chile, colloquial) annoying duty or work

• (piece): pedazo, trozo
• (horn): cuerno
• (shit): maula, rollo
• (annoying work): rollo

• → Papiamentu: kachu

cacho

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of cachar.