cabre

• IPA^(key): /kəˈbɹeɪ/, /ˈkɑː.bɹeɪ/

cabre

1. Alternative spelling of cabré

cabre (plural cabres)

1. (obsolete or historical and generally offensive) A person of mixed black and mulatto descent.
   • 1995, B. W. Higman, Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834, University of West Indies Press, →ISBN, page 154:

     Further, the registration returns for some colonies provided only a generalized “coloured” or “mulatto” category, […] The Trinidad registration returns certainly provide clear examples of mulatto-black couples having cabre children, but […]

• (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto

• The British Dictionary, in two volumes, illustrated (1933, Odhams Press Limited, London WC2)

• Brace, acerb, brace, caber

• caber, cabre-hi

Inherited from Latin capere, from Proto-Italic *kapiō, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *keh₂p- (“to seize, grab”). Compare Occitan caupre.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Homophone: cabra

cabre (first-person singular present cabo, first-person singular preterite cabí, past participle cabut)

1. to fit, as the possibility to enter or be contained in a given space

• “cabre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cabre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cabre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cabre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• becar, breca, caber, rabec

• IPA^(key): /kabʁ/
• Homophones: cabrent, cabres

cabre

1. inflection of cabrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• berça, crabe