cabelo

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

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbɛlo/ [kɑˈβ̞ɛ.lʊ]

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• Rhymes: -ɛlo

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

• en cabelo

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

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

• Rhymes: -elu
• Hyphenation: ca‧be‧lo

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!

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

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

• “cabelo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

cabelo

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