cabelo

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabelo (“hair”), from Latin capillus (“hair”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaˈbɛlo/ [kɑˈβ̞ɛ.lʊ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛlo

Noun

cabelo m (plural cabelos)

  1. hair (individual strand)
    • c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 96:
      Et avia os cabelos da cabeça et da barba vermellos
      And the hairs of his head and of his beard were red
    Synonym: pelo
  2. hair; head of hair
    • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 453:
      El rrey Príamos era forte caualeyro et de forte coraçõ et moy duro et sen medo a sua gisa, mays pero, poys que esto oýo dizer, fóysselle alçãdo o cabelo, et fóysselle tomãdo hũ frío, et ouuo grã dulta et grã pauor de Éytor
      king Priam was a strong knight and had a strong heart and was very hard and fearless in his own way; but, as soon as he heard this, his hair raised, and a cold spree took him, and had a big fear and a big fright of Hector
    Synonym: pelo

Derived terms
  • en cabelo

References
  • “cabelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “cabelo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “cabelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “cabelo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “cabelo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabelo (“hair”), from Latin capillus (“hair”), from caput (“head”) + pilus (“hair”).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈbe.lu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈbe.lo/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈbe.lu/ [kɐˈβe.lu]

  • Hyphenation: ca‧be‧lo

Noun

cabelo m (plural cabelos)

  1. hair, head of hair
    O cabelo dela era louro.
    Her hair colour was blonde.
  2. hair (a single hair filament)
    Synonym: fio (de cabelo)
    Há um cabelo na minha sopa!
    There's a hair in my soup!

Usage notes

Cabelo is used for hair that grows on a person’s scalp. Hair that grows on other parts of the skin is pelo.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: kabelu
  • Kabuverdianu: kabelu

Further reading

Spanish

Verb

cabelo

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of caber combined with lo
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