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cabeça

cabeça

Old Spanish

Noun

cabeça f (plural cabeças)

  1. head
    • c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 6v. col. 2.
      dixo ſónaua q́ tenẏa / iij. canaſtiellos. blácos ſobre / mẏ cabeça. en el canaſtiello ſu / ſano auẏa del comer de phara / on. E las aues del cielo comien / del canaſtiello ſobre mẏ. cabeça
      he said: "I dreamt I had three white baskets on my head, and on the uppermost basket was all that which the pharaoh ate, and the birds of the sky ate from the basket upon my head."

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Etymology

From Old Portuguese cabeça, from Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural (reanalyzed as a feminine singular) of Latin capitium, from caput.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈβesɐ/
  • Hyphenation: ca‧be‧ça

Noun

cabeça f (plural cabeças)

  1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)
  2. head (topmost, foremost, or leading part)

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:cabeça.

Noun

cabeça m f (plural cabeças)

  1. (colloquial) head (leader, boss)

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:cabeça.

Descendants

  • Kabuverdianu: kabésa

Spanish

Noun

cabeça f (plural cabeças)

  1. Obsolete spelling of cabeza