caco-

American  

1. a combining form meaning “bad,” occurring in loanwords from Greek (cacodemon ); on this model, used in the formation of compound words (cacogenics ).

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caco- British  

combining form

1. bad, unpleasant, or incorrect

   cacophony

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Etymology

Origin of caco-

< Greek, combining form of kakós

Example Sentences

One of the boats had departed Pucallpa to the north on Sunday and was travelling towards the riverside communities of Caco Macaya, Curiaca del Caco, and Pueblo Nuevo del Caco, local media reports.

From BBC

The gorilla is about nine years old and is called Caco by the trackers who took the young Dutchman to see the ape in Odzala National Park in the Republic of Congo.

From BBC

I am not just rerereading these books this summer because I am a glutton for punishment but because my grandfather was a Caco, or a resistance fighter, against this occupation, and I want, a hundred years later, to get a sense of the minds of some of the men he was fighting against.

From The New Yorker

David Vale took time to answer questions about the project and his work with co-creators Rick Van Mook and Caco Teixeira.

From Forbes

The exact origin of the festival are not known, various theories exist from the mythological punishment of Caco by Hercules, to a cattle thief ridiculed and expelled by his neighbors.

From Time