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Portuguese
Etymology
From cabeça + -al.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
- Hyphenation: ca‧be‧çal
Noun
cabeçal m (plural cabeçais)
- (medicine, obsolete) a type of compress applied to the head
- (dated) a head-pillow
- a beam placed under a bell for safety
Further reading
- “cabeçal”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “cabeçal”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
- “cabeçal” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “cabeçal”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “cabeçal”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “cabeçal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025