cabeça

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See also: cabéça and cabəca

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *capittia, variant of capitia, plural of Latin capitium.

Pronunciation

Noun

cabeça f (plural cabeces)

  1. (botany) bulb, head (of garlic)
    Synonym: bulb

Derived terms

Further reading

Galician

Noun

cabeça f (plural cabeças, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of cabeza

References

  • cabeça” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Etymology

From Latin capitia, from the neuter plural accusative of capitium.

Pronunciation

Noun

cabeça f

  1. head
    • ca. 1376-1396, Juan Fernández de Heredia, Ystorias de Orosio :
      Diuso de aquesti tiempo, Quintilio Vario faziendose subdito de los subiectos con marauellosa soberuia et grant auaricia, de los germanos qui se rebellauan fue destruido con tres legiones. El qual tajamiento et mortaldat de la republica Cesar Agusto la tenia en tanto por mala et grieu, que muchas vegadas por el grant dolor que dende auia, dando con la cabeça a la pared cridaua: "Quintilio Vario riendeme las legiones que yo te di."
      Before this time, Quinctilius Varus, having become a subject of the conquered with marvelous arrogance and great greed, was destroyed by German rebels along with three legions. Augustus took this reduction , this mortality of the Republic, so badly and with such grief, that he would often, in great pain, hit his head against a wall shouting, "Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!"

References

  • Nagore Laín, Francho (2021) Vocabulario de la crónica de San Juan de la Peña (versión aragonesa, s. XIV), Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, page 61

Occitan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural accusative of capitium (covering for the head) (reanalyzed as a feminine singular), from caput (head).

Pronunciation

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Noun

cabeça f (plural cabeças)

  1. (anatomy, Provençal) head
  2. mind
  3. (Gascony) plough

Derived terms

Further reading

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural accusative of capitium (covering for the head) (reanalyzed as a feminine singular), from caput (head).

Pronunciation

Noun

cabeça f (plural cabeças)

  1. head
    • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 6v. col. 2.
      dixo ſõnaua q̃ tenẏa / .iij. canaſtiellos. blãcos ſobre / mẏ cabeça. en el canaſtiello ſu / ſano auẏa del comer de phara / on. E las aues del cielo comien / del canaſtiello ſobre mẏ. cabeça
      he said: "I dreamt I had three white baskets on my head, and on the uppermost basket was all that which the pharaoh ate, and the birds of the sky ate from the basket upon my head."

Descendants

  • Ladino:
    Hebrew script: קאב׳יסה
    Latin script: kavesa
  • Spanish: cabeza

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabeça, from Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural (reanalyzed as a feminine singular) of Latin capitium, from caput.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

cabeça f (plural cabeças)

  1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)
  2. head (topmost, foremost, or leading part)
  3. (figurative) sense

Quotations

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Derived terms

Noun

cabeça m or f by sense (plural cabeças)

  1. (colloquial) head (leader, boss)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cabeça.

Descendants

Spanish

Noun

cabeça f (plural cabeças)

  1. Archaic spelling of cabeza.