cabo

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Catalan[edit]

Verb[edit]

cabo

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of cabre

Galician[edit]

Cabo Ortegal, Galicia
Cabo Vilán, Galicia

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabo, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput (“head, source”).

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Noun[edit]

cabo m (plural cabos)

  1. end, tip, final part
    Synonyms: canto, extremo
  2. (geography) cape, headland
  3. handle
    Synonym: mango
  4. rope
    Synonym: corda
  5. wire
    Synonym: cable

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Noun[edit]

cabo m or f (plural cabos)

  1. corporal

Preposition[edit]

cabo

  1. next, by

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References[edit]

  • “cabo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “cabo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “cabo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “cabo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “cabo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Indonesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Amoy 查某 (tsa-bó͘, “woman”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃa.bo]
  • Hyphenation: ca‧bo

Noun[edit]

cabo (first-person possessive caboku, second-person possessive cabomu, third-person possessive cabonya)

  1. (chiefly Jakarta, vulgar) prostitute; whore

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Latin[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Found in Late Latin; from a source akin to Khotanese [script needed] (kabä, “horse”), Persian کول‎ (kaval, “slow, clumsy horse”) (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kaba, *kabala (“horse”)) and Old Church Slavonic кобꙑла (kobyla, “mare”), which could ultimately be of Proto-Indo-European origin.[1]

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Noun[edit]

cabō m (genitive cabōnis); third declension

  1. gelding
Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cabō cabōnēs
Genitive cabōnis cabōnum
Dative cabōnī cabōnibus
Accusative cabōnem cabōnēs
Ablative cabōne cabōnibus
Vocative cabō cabōnēs

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

cabō

  1. dative/ablative singular of cabus

References[edit]

  • “cabo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cabo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • cabo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  1. ^ “cavalier”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

 

  • Rhymes: -abu
  • Homophone: cavo (Northern Portugal)
  • Hyphenation: ca‧bo
  • Audio (Brazil - São Paulo)(file)

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabo (“besides; nearby”), from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-. Doublet of caput, chefe, and chef.

Noun[edit]

cabo m (plural cabos)

  1. (military) rank roughly equivalent to corporal
  2. (geomorphology) cape (piece of land extending beyond the coast)
    Synonym: promontório
  3. the final steps or moments of an event
    Synonyms: conclusão, fim, finalização, término, termo
  4. head man (person in charge of an organisation or group)
    Synonyms: cabeça, chefe, comandante, líder
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese caboo, from Medieval Latin capulum (“rope; halter”), from Latin capiō (“to seize”). Doublet of cacho.

Noun[edit]

cabo m (plural cabos)

  1. cable (strong, large-diameter wire or rope)
  2. cable (assembly of wires used for electrical power or data circuits)
  3. (nautical) any rope in a ship except the bell rope and the clock rope
  4. a long handle, such as a shaft
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  • (certain ropes in a ship): corda
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Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-. Doublet of jefe and chef.

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Noun[edit]

cabo m (plural cabos)

  1. end, edge, extremity (furthest or terminal point of something)
    Synonym: borde
  2. end, finish, conclusion (terminal point of something in time)
  3. stub, butt, stump (something blunted, stunted, burnt to a stub, or cut short)
  4. (nautical) cable, rope (strong rope or chain, especially used to moor or anchor a ship)
  5. (geography) cape, headland (piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake)
  6. (military) corporal (non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4)
    • 1973, Mario Vargas Llosa, Pantaleón y las Visitadoras, Punto de Lectura, published 2007, page 20:
      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.
  7. (law enforcement) sergeant (highest rank of noncommissioned officer)
  8. (in the plural) accessories, knick-knacks, odds and ends (small trinket of minor value)

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