cabeça

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

• IPA^(key): [kaˈbe.tsa]

Noun

cabeça f (plural cabeças)

1. head
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 6v. col. 2.

     dixo ſónaua q́ tenẏa / iij. canaſtiellos. blácos 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."

Related terms

• cabdal
• cabdiello

Descendants

• Ladino:

  Hebrew script: קאב׳יסה

  Latin script: kavesa

• Spanish: cabeza

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Portuguese

Picture dictionary

cabeça

crânio

cérebro

olho

nariz

boca

queixo

mandíbula

orelha

têmpora

pescoço

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corpo

corpo

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

• IPA^(key): /kɐ.ˈβe.sɐ/
• IPA^(key): /ka.ˈbe.sɐ/
• Hyphenation: ca‧be‧ça

Noun

cabeça f (plural s)

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

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cabeça.

Noun

cabeça m or f (plural s)

1. (colloquial) head (leader, boss)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cabeça.

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: kabésa

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Spanish

Noun

cabeça f (plural cabeças)

1. Archaic spelling of cabeza.