cabeza

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

cabeza f

1. (anatomy) head

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

• IPA^(key): [kaˈβe.θa]

cabeza f (plural cabeces)

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

Since the 12th century in Latin charters. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cabeça, from Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural (reanalyzed as a feminine singular) of Latin capitium, diminutive of caput (“head”). Cognate with Portuguese cabeça and Spanish cabeza.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈβeθa̝/, (western) /kaˈβesa̝/

cabeza f (plural cabezas)

1. head
2. extreme of an axle
3. extreme or top of something
4. crown of a tree
5. large round mountaintop
6. (figuratively) mind, reasoning
7. (usually in the plural) milk skin

• cabeceira
• Cabeceira
• Cabeza
• cabezo
• Cabezo

• “cabeza” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cabeza” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cabeza” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cabeza” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cabeza” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• cabeça (archaic)

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

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /kaˈbeθa/, [kaˈβeθa]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /kaˈbesa/, [kaˈβesa]

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• Rhymes: -esa
• Hyphenation: ca‧be‧za

cabeza f (plural cabezas)

1. (anatomy) head

(diminutive cabecilla or cabecita) (augmentative cabezazo, cabezón, cabezota, or cabezudo)

• “cabeza” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.