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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese cabeçeira (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): synchronically cabeza + -eira. Cognate with Portuguese cabeceira and Spanish cabecera.
Pronunciation
Noun
cabeceira f (plural cabeceiras)
- (furniture) headboard, bedhead
- Synonym: testeiro
- (fishing) first floater of a longline
- Antonym: cúa
- extreme or top of a field
- Antonyms: fondeira, illargada
- (archaic) head of government
- headwaters
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cabeçeira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cabeçe”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cabeceira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cabeceira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cabeceira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Etymology
From cabeça (“head”) + -eira. Compare Spanish cabecera.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ca‧be‧cei‧ra
Noun
cabeceira f (plural cabeceiras)
- (furniture) headboard (of a bed)
- (especially in the plural) source of a river
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