cabre

• IPA^(key): /kəˈbɹeɪ/

cabre

1. Alternative spelling of cabré

cabre (plural cabres)

1. (obsolete, now generally offensive) A person of mixed black and mulatto descent.

• Brace, acerb, brace, caber

• caber, cabre-hi

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin capere, present active infinitive of capiō, from Proto-Italic *kapiō, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *keh₂p- (“to seize, grab”). Compare Occitan caupre.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bɾe/
• Homophone: cabra

cabre (first-person singular present cabo, past participle cabut)

1. to fit, as the possibility to enter or be contained in a given space

• becar, breca, caber, rabec

• “cabre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cabre” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cabre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cabre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /kabʁ/
• Homophones: cabrent, cabres

cabre

1. inflection of cabrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

• berça, crabe