cabecera
Spanish
Alternative forms
- cabezera (obsolete)
Etymology
From cabeza (“head”) + -era. Compare Portuguese cabeceira.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kabeˈθeɾa/ [ka.β̞eˈθe.ɾa] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /kabeˈseɾa/ [ka.β̞eˈse.ɾa] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -eɾa
- Syllabification: ca‧be‧ce‧ra
Noun
cabecera f (plural cabeceras)
- headboard, bedhead
- head (of company)
- (Latin America, Philippines) seat of government
- Synonym: capital
- headline, heading, top
- (television, film) opening credits, intro, title sequence
- Synonym: intro
- headwaters
- (computing, networking) header
Derived terms
- a la cabecera
- cabecera de línea
- cabecera de puente
- de cabecera
- libro de cabecera
- médico de cabecera
Descendants
Further reading
- “cabecera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024