cabezal

Attested since the 13th century (cabeçal): synchronically cabeza +‎ -al. Cognate with Portuguese cabeçal and Spanish cabezal

• IPA^(key): /kaβeˈθal/, (western) /kaβeˈsal/

cabezal m (plural cabezais)

1. halter

   Synonyms: cabresto, trenla

2. pillow (a soft, usually square, cushion used to support the head in bed)
   • 1375, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 380:

     It. mando a estevayna boa moller hua cama de Roupa que seia hua Coçedra et huun almadraque et hua colcha et dous cabeçaes

     Item, I bequeath Estevaíña, good woman, a bedding, which is a feather mattress and a large mattress and a quilt and two pillows

   Synonyms: almofada, traveseiro

3. (archaic, law) executor
   • 1309, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310), Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, vol III page 1283:

     Item mando que aquel deste testamento for meu cabeçal, que aya poder de vender a mia herdade de Paderne

     Item, I order that the executor of this, my will, has the power to sell my property in Paderne

• cabeza (“head”)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cabeçal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cabeça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cabezal”, 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), “cabezal”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cabezal”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From cabeza +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kabeˈθal/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kabeˈsal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ca‧be‧zal

cabezal m (plural cabezales)

1. head (of a mechanism)

   Hyponym: cabezal de ducha

   cabezal de vídeo ― video head

2. small pillow; headrest (in a car)

   Synonyms: reposacabezas, almohada

3. headboard, bedhead

   Synonym: cabecero

4. wig block

• “cabezal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10