cabre

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See also: cabré

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈbɹeɪ/, /ˈkɑː.bɹeɪ/

Adjective

cabre

  1. Alternative spelling of cabré

Noun

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 […]

Coordinate terms

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

References

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

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Verb

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

Conjugation

    Conjugation of cabre (second conjugation, irregular)
infinitive cabre
gerund cabent
past participle masculine feminine
singular cabut cabuda
plural cabuts cabudes
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu ell/ella
vostè 		nosaltres
nós 		vosaltres
vós 		ells/elles
vostès
present cabo caps cap cabem cabeu caben
imperfect cabia cabies cabia cabíem cabíeu cabien
future cabré cabràs cabrà cabrem cabreu cabran
preterite cabí caberes cabé cabérem cabéreu caberen
conditional cabria cabries cabria cabríem cabríeu cabrien
subjunctive jo tu ell/ella
vostè 		nosaltres
nós 		vosaltres
vós 		ells/elles
vostès
present càpiga càpigues càpiga capiguem capigueu càpiguen
imperfect cabés cabessis cabés cabéssim cabéssiu cabessin
imperative — tu vostè nosaltres vosaltres
vós 		vostès
affirmative — cap càpiga capiguem cabeu càpiguen
negative (no) — no càpigues no càpiga no capiguem no capigueu no càpiguen

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Pronunciation

Verb

cabre

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

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