cabeceira

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabeçeira (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): synchronically cabeza +‎ -eira. Cognate with Portuguese cabeceira and Spanish cabecera.

• IPA^(key): [kaβeˈθei̯ɾɐ], (western) [kaβeˈsei̯ɾɐ]

cabeceira f (plural cabeceiras)

1. (furniture) headboard, bedhead

   Synonym: testeiro

2. (fishing) first floater of a longline

   Antonym: cúa

3. extreme or top of a field

   Antonyms: fondeira, illargada

4. (archaic) head of government
5. headwaters

• cabeza (“head”)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cabeçeira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cabeçe”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cabeceira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cabeceira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cabeceira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From cabeça (“head”) +‎ -eira. Compare Spanish cabecera.

• Hyphenation: ca‧be‧cei‧ra

cabeceira f (plural cabeceiras)

1. (furniture) headboard (of a bed)
2. (especially in the plural) source of a river

• “cabeceira”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025