cabo

See also: Cabo

Catalan

Verb

cabo

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of cabre

Galician

Etymology

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

Noun

cabo m (plural cabos)

  1. end, final part
  2. cape, headland
  3. handle
  4. corporal

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Indonesian

Etymology

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

Noun

cabo

  1. (vulgar) prostitute; whore

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

cabō m (genitive cabōnis); third declension

  1. gelding

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative cabō cabōnēs
genitive cabōnis cabōnum
dative cabōnī cabōnibus
accusative cabōnem cabōnēs
ablative cabōne cabōnibus
vocative cabō cabōnēs

Etymology 2

Noun

cabō

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

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

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)
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Holonyms
  • (certain ropes in a ship): cordame, cordoalha
Coordinate terms
  • (certain ropes in a ship): corda

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkabo/, [ˈkaβo]
  • Audio(file)
  • Audio (Latin America)(file)
  • Homophone: cavo

Noun

cabo m (plural cabos)

  1. end, edge, extremity
  2. end, finish, conclusion
  3. stub, butt, stump
  4. (nautical) cable, rope
  5. (geography) cape
  6. (military) corporal
    • 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
  8. (in the plural) accessories, knick-knacks

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Further reading

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