# Spanish translation: Cacotas **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 10, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-cacotas/395336 "2007-03-10T01:50:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-cacotas/395336/1 "2007-03-10T01:50:21Z")
I’m watching Robert Rodriguez’s _Bedhead_, and one of the props is a box of ‘Little Dog’s Big Cacotas Cereal’. I tried babelfish, but it couldn’t translate ‘cacotas’. What are cacotas? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-cacotas/395336/2 "2007-03-10T02:44:20Z")
Poop, particularly dog poop. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-cacotas/395336/3 "2007-03-10T02:44:57Z")
It’s slang for “big poops”; _caca_ “shit” + -_ota_, an ending that means “a big one (of something).” It’s not the kind of word that Babelfish knows. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-cacotas/395336/4 "2007-03-10T11:40:35Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] It’s not the kind of word that Babelfish knows. [/QUOTE] Right. Babelsfish doesn’t know shit. ---
**Author:** ![ChicanoRojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@ChicanoRojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChicanoRojo)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-cacotas/395336/5 "2007-03-10T16:07:19Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] I’m watching Robert Rodriguez’s _Bedhead_, and one of the props is a box of ‘Little Dog’s Big Cacotas Cereal’. I tried babelfish, but it couldn’t translate ‘cacotas’. What are cacotas? [/QUOTE] Second Colibri. Short answer. “Cacotas” = “Big Shits”. “Little Dog’s Big Shits” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-cacotas/395336/6 "2007-03-10T19:07:58Z")
[QUOTE=bibliophage] Right. Babelsfish doesn’t know shit. [/QUOTE] I consider my money for this year’s subscription to the SDMB to be officially “Well Worth It” as of this post. Everything else for the rest of the year is now gravy… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-cacotas/395336/7 "2007-03-10T23:30:45Z")
The [reverse translation](http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fboards.straightdope.com%2Fsdmb%2Fshowthread.php%3Fp%3D8341465%23post8341465&langpair=en%7Ces&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools) via Google is interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-cacotas/395336/8 "2007-03-17T19:15:06Z")
Would small ones be cacitos? ---
**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-cacotas/395336/9 "2007-03-17T23:02:23Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] Would small ones be cacitos? [/QUOTE] Caquita. ---
**Author:** ![ChicanoRojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@ChicanoRojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChicanoRojo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-cacotas/395336/10 "2007-03-17T23:03:32Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] Would small ones be cacitos? [/QUOTE] In order to futher human knowledge…it would be “caquita” or its plural form “caquitas.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-cacotas/395336/11 "2007-03-18T02:11:31Z")
Just to elaborate, if you write “cacitos” the second “c” is pronounced as an “s” and so to avoid such, you must change it to “qu”. That, plus the gender.