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Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin capillum, accusative of capillus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈbeʎo/
- Hyphenation: ca‧bel‧lo
Noun
cabello m (plural cabellos)
- (usually in the plural, anatomy) hair
c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 17r:Et a eſte nombre por que ſegund dize ptholomeo naſcen en aquella tierra en los arboles unas fructas en figuras de mugieres ⁊ cuelgan por los cabellos.- And it has this name because, according to Ptolemy, fruits in the shape of women grow on the trees of that land, and they hang by the hair.
Descendants
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish cabello, from Latin capillus (whence English capillary). Compare Galician cabelo, Portuguese cabelo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kaˈbeʝo/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kaˈbeʎo/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaˈbeʃo/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈbeʒo/
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -eʝo
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -eʎo
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -eʃo
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -eʒo
- Syllabification: ca‧be‧llo
Noun
cabello m (plural cabellos)
- hair (the mass of hairs on the head)
- Synonym: pelo
Derived terms
Further reading
- “cabello”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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