cabellera

Catalan

Etymology

From cabell +‎ -era.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [kə.βəˈʎe̞.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kə.bəˈʎe.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [kə.βəˈʎe.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ka.beˈʎe.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [ka.βeˈʎe.ɾa]

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Noun

cabellera f (plural cabelleres)

1. head of hair
2. mane (longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal)

   Synonym: crinera

3. (astronomy) tail (the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind)

Further reading

• “cabellera”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cabellera”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “cabellera” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “cabellera”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish cabello

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Italic *-ā

Latin -a

Latin -āria

Spanish -era

Spanish cabellera

From cabello + -era.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kabeˈʝeɾa/ [ka.β̞eˈʝe.ɾa]

• IPA^(key): /kabeˈʝeɾa/ [ka.β̞eˈʝe.ɾa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /kabeˈʎeɾa/ [ka.β̞eˈʎe.ɾa] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /kabeˈʃeɾa/ [ka.β̞eˈʃe.ɾa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /kabeˈʒeɾa/ [ka.β̞eˈʒe.ɾa] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /kabeˈeɾa/ [ka.β̞eˈe.ɾa] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ca‧be‧lle‧ra

Noun

cabellera f (plural cabelleras)

1. hair, head of hair
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 57:

     En la ya nombrada laguna de Aculeo, se dice también que hay encantada una princesa, a cual se le ha visto peinar con peine de oro las áureas hebras de su admirable cabellera.

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2. (astronomy) tail (the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind)

Further reading

• “cabellera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025