cabrito

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cabrito (“kid”).

Noun

cabrito (uncountable)

1. (cooking) Meat from a young goat; kid.
   • 1995, Cheryl Alters Jamison, Bill Jamison, The Border Cookbook: Authentic Home Cooking of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, page 223,

     Mutton rivaled beef in prominence until this century, and cabrito, or kid, remains a major food in Nuevo León.

   • 2001, Mary Faulk Koock, The Texas Cookbook: From Barbecue to Banquet-- An Informal View of Dining and Entertaining the Texas Way‎^[1], page 65:

     Mr. Dean O. Smith, who is the game warden in the Dripping Springs area, barbecues the cabrito for us, and what a treat that is! Cabrito is a very young Spanish goat between one and a half and two years old.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 116:

     Consuela and Sullivan had been cooking all night so there was plenty of beef and cabrito.

Synonyms

• kid

Translations

meat of a young goat

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Galician

Alternative forms

• cabirto

Etymology

cabra +‎ -ito; may have originally corresponded to a Vulgar Latin or Late Latin caprītus (attested in Salic Law). Cognate with Portuguese cabrito and Spanish cabrito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈβɾito̝/

Noun

cabrito m (plural cabritos, feminine cabrito, feminine plural cabritos)

1. kid (young goat)

   Synonyms: cabuxo, rexelo

Related terms

• cabra

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cabrito”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• “cabrito” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

Etymology

cabra +‎ -ito; from Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese cabrito (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). May have originally corresponded to a Vulgar Latin or Late Latin caprītus (attested in Salic Law), from *caprīre, from Latin caper (which would have normally yielded *cabrido), but was influenced by the Portuguese diminutive suffix -ito (from Late Latin -ittus). Compare Spanish cabrito, Aragonese crabido, crabito, crapito, Catalan and Occitan cabrit, French dialectal chevri.

Noun

cabrito m (plural s, feminine cabrita, feminine plural cabritas)

1. kid (young goat)

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Spanish

Etymology

cabra +‎ -ito; may have originally corresponded to a Vulgar Latin or Late Latin caprītus (attested in Salic Law), as the past participle of a verb *caprīre (“give birth (of goats)”), from Latin caper (which would have normally yielded *cabrido), but was influenced by the Spanish diminutive suffix -ito (from Late Latin -ittus). Compare Portuguese cabrito, Aragonese crabido, crabito, crapito, Catalan and Occitan cabrit, French dialectal chevri..

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kaˈβɾi.to]

Noun

cabrito m (plural cabritos)

1. kid (young goat)

Related terms

• cabra