cabro

See also: cabrò and cabró

Italian

Verb

cabro

first-person singular present indicative of cabrare

Anagrams

cobra
corba

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin caper, caprum.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkabɾo/, [ˈkaβɾo]

Noun

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

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

Usage notes

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.

Synonyms

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

Related terms

cabra

Further reading

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

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