cao

Abbreviation of English Chácobo.

cao

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Chácobo.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Chácobo terms

• CAO (superseded)

• IPA^(key): /seː.aːˈoː/

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cao f (plural cao's, diminutive cao'tje n)

1. initialism of collectieve arbeidsovereenkomst (collective bargaining)

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.o/
• Rhymes: -ao
• Hyphenation: cà‧o

cao m (invariable)

1. (obsolete) alternative form of caos

• oca

cao

1. nonstandard spelling of cāo
2. nonstandard spelling of cáo
3. nonstandard spelling of cǎo
4. nonstandard spelling of cào

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Onomatopoeic.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkao/ [ˈka.o]
• Rhymes: -ao
• Syllabification: ca‧o

cao

1. (Dominican Republic) palm crow (Corvus palmarum)

• “cao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [kaːw˧˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [kaːw˦˥]

From Chinese 膏.

cao

1. (alternative medicine) a tonic made from animal flesh or bone

   da cao ― tonic medicine

   tức cao slưa ― to apply tiger (bone) balm

From Chinese 高 (gāo).

cao (高)

1. high

• Lương Bèn (2011), Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[3] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910), Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[4] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

• cavo

Inherited from Vulgar Latin capus, masculinization of Latin caput.

cao m (plural cai)

1. head (all senses)
2. shoot of a vine

• testa

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaːw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kaːw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kaːw˧˧]

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 高.

cao • (高, 髙)

1. high or tall

   Antonyms: thấp, (of a person) lùn

   núi cao ― high mountains

   nhà cao tầng ― a multistory building

Sino-Vietnamese word from 膏 (“fat; grease; oil”).

cao

1. (alternative medicine) a tonic, balm or cream made from animal flesh or bone

   cao mèo ― cat tonic

   cao hổ cốt ― tiger-bone tonic

   Bạch Hổ Hoạt Lạc Cao ― the White Tiger Smooth Balm