cabo

cabo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of cabre

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaβo̝/

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

• Cabo
• Cabo de Vila
• cabodano
• Cabodevila

• cabeza

cabo m or f (plural cabos)

1. corporal

cabo

1. next, by

• cabo de
• ó cabo de

• “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.

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

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

1. (vulgar) prostitute; whore

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.boː/

cabō m (genitive cabōnis); third declension

1. gelding

Third declension.

cabō

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

• 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, 1883–1887)

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

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.

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)

• (cape): promontório
• (final steps or moments): conclusão, fim, finalização, término, termo
• (head man): cabeça, chefe, comandante, líder

• acabar
• cabal
• cabeça
• caporal
• chefe

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

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

• (thick rope): cordão
• (long handle): haste

• (long handle): mango

• (certain ropes in a ship): cordame, cordoalha

• (certain ropes in a ship): corda

• encabar

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabo/, [ˈkaβo]

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• Homophone: cavo

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)

• acabar
• cabal

• cabeza

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