cabo
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[edit] Catalan
[edit] Verb
cabo
- First-person singular present indicative form of cabre.
[edit] Galician
[edit] Etymology
From Latin caput (“head, source”).
[edit] Noun
cabo m. (plural cabos)
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[edit] Indonesian
[edit] Noun
cabo
[edit] Latin
[edit] Noun
cabō
[edit] Spanish
[edit] Etymology
From Latin caput
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkaβo/
[edit] Noun
cabo m. (plural cabos)
- end, edge, extremity
- end, finish, conclusion
- stub, butt, stump
- (nautical) cable, rope
- (geography) cape
- (military) corporal
- 1973: A Luisa Cánepa, mi sirvienta, la violó un sargento, y después un cabo y después un soldado raso. My servant Luisa Cánepa was raped by a sergeant, then by a corporal, and then by a private. — Mario Vargas Llosa, Pantaleón y las Visitadoras (Punto de Lectura 2007, p. 20)
- (police) sergeant
- (in the plural) accessories, knick-knacks