cabo

See also: Cabo

Catalan

Verb

cabo

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of cabre

Galician

Cabo Ortegal, Galicia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaβo̝/

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

Derived terms

Noun

cabo m or f (plural cabos)

  1. corporal

Preposition

cabo

  1. next, by

Derived terms

References

  • cabo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • cabo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • 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

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 查某 (cha-bó͘, “woman”).

Noun

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

  1. (vulgar) prostitute; whore

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

cabō m (genitive cabōnis); third declension

  1. gelding

Inflection

Third declension.

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

Noun

cabō

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

References


Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkabu/
  • (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkabo/
  • Rhymes: -abu

Etymology 1

From Old 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 cabos)

  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
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese caboo, from Medieval Latin capulum (rope; halter), from Latin capiō (I seize).

Noun

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
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Holonyms
  • (certain ropes in a ship): cordame, cordoalha
Coordinate terms
  • (certain ropes in a ship): corda

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/, [ˈkaβo]
  • (file)
  • (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)

Derived terms

Further reading

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