cabello
See also: Cabello
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin capillum, accusative of capillus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈbeʎo/
- Hyphenation: ca‧bel‧lo
Noun
cabello m (plural cabellos)
- (usually in the plural, anatomy) hair
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 17r:
- Et a eſte nombre por que ſegund dize ptholomeo naſcen en aquella tierra en los arboles unas fructas en figuras de mugieres ⁊ cuelgan por los cabellos.
- And it has this name because, according to Ptolemy, fruits in the shape of women grow on the trees of that land, and they hang by the hair.
Descendants
- Spanish: cabello
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish cabello, from Latin capillus (whence English capillary). Compare Galician cabelo, Portuguese cabelo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈbeʝo/ [kaˈβ̞e.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /kaˈbeʎo/ [kaˈβ̞e.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /kaˈbeʃo/ [kaˈβ̞e.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /kaˈbeʒo/ [kaˈβ̞e.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -eʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -eʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -eʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -eʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: ca‧be‧llo
Noun
cabello m (plural cabellos)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “cabello”, 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
- 2017 May 20, “Trasplante de cabello - Injerto Capilar FUE en España”, in Medican Clinics[1]:
- Trasplante de cabello o injerto capilar FUE en España con clínicas en Barcelona y Málaga por 2.995 € hasta 4.500 folículos
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