cabo

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See also: Cabo

Catalan

Verb

cabo

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Galician

Cabo Ortegal, Galicia
Cabo Vilán, Galicia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

cabo m (plural cabos)

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

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Noun

cabo m or f (plural cabos)

  1. corporal

Preposition

cabo

  1. next, by

Derived terms

References

Indonesian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

  1. (Jakarta, vulgar) prostitute; whore

Further reading

Latin

Etymology 1

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]

Pronunciation

Noun

cabō m (genitive cabōnis); third declension

  1. gelding
Declension

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

Noun

(deprecated template usage) cabō

  1. dative singular of cabus
  2. ablative singular of cabus

References

  • “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. ^ “cabo”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkabu/
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  • Rhymes: -abu

Etymology 1

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

Noun

cabo m (plural s)

  1. (military) rank roughly equivalent to corporal
  2. (geomorphology) cape (piece of land extending beyond the coast)
  3. the final steps or moments of an event
  4. head man (person in charge of an organisation or group)
Synonyms
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

cabo m (plural s)

  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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Holonyms
Coordinate terms
  • (certain ropes in a ship): corda
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Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-. Doublet of jefe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkabo/ [ˈka.β̞o]
  • Audio(file)
  • Audio (Latin America)(file)
  • Homophone: cavo

Noun

cabo m (plural cabos)

  1. end, edge, extremity (furthest or terminal point of something)
  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 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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