cabro

cabro

1. first-person singular present indicative of cabrare

• cobra
• corba

From Latin caper, caprum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabɾo/, [ˈkaβɾo]

cabro m (plural cabros, feminine cabra, feminine plural cabras)

1. male goat
2. (Chile, Paraguay, colloquial, Puerto Rico) kid, boy (a child)
3. (Peru, vulgar) fag (homosexual man)

• While the general rule for gender-paired nouns in Romance languages is that the male is used when the gender is unknown, the words for goat descending from the Latin capra are an exception, with the feminine form used for goats of indeterminate gender.

• (male goat): chivo, cabrón
• (kid, boy): chaval, chico, muchacho

• cabra

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