cabeza

• capeza (central dialects)
• cap (eastern dialects)

From Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural (reanalyzed as a feminine singular) of Latin capitium, diminutive of caput.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbeθa/
• Syllabification: ca‧be‧za
• Rhymes: -eθa

cabeza f (plural cabezas)

1. (anatomy) head

From Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural (reanalyzed as a feminine singular) of Latin capitium, diminutive of caput.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbeθa/ [kaˈβ̞e.θa]
• Rhymes: -eθa
• Syllabification: ca‧be‧za

cabeza f (plural cabeces)

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

• “cabeza” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.
• “cabeza” in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). →ISBN.

From Spanish cabeza.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbesa/, [kaˈbe.sa]
• Rhymes: -esa
• Hyphenation: ca‧be‧za

cabeza (plural cabezas)

1. head

• cabeça (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabeça, from Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural (reanalyzed as a feminine singular) of Latin capitium, diminutive of caput (“head”). Cognate with Portuguese cabeça and Spanish cabeza.

• Hyphenation: ca‧be‧za

cabeza f (plural cabezas)

1. head
2. head of a cabbage
3. extreme of an axle
4. extreme or top of something
5. crown of a tree
6. (geography) mountaintop, summit

   Synonym: pena

7. (figuratively) mind, reasoning
8. (usually in the plural) milk skin

• cabeceira
• Cabeceira
• Cabeza
• cabezo
• Cabezo

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cabeza”, 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), “cabeza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cabeza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• cabeça (archaic)

Inherited from Old Spanish cabeça, from Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural (reanalyzed as a feminine singular) of Latin capitium, diminutive of caput.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbeθa/ [kaˈβ̞e.θa] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /kaˈbesa/ [kaˈβ̞e.sa] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -eθa (Spain)
• Rhymes: -esa (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: ca‧be‧za

cabeza f (plural cabezas)

1. (anatomy) head
2. mind (in certain phrases)

   perder la cabeza ― to lose one's mind

   No puedo quitarme a esa chica de la cabeza.

   I can't get that girl out of my head.

(diminutive cabecilla or cabecita) (augmentative cabezazo, cabezón, cabezota, or cabezudo)

• →? English: beezer

cabeza m (plural cabezas)

1. (colloquial, Andalusia) guy, dude, man

• “cabeza”, 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