cabrit

cabrit (plural cabrits)

1. Dated form of cabrée (“pronghorn antelope”).

• “cabrit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Inherited from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin caprītus (attested in Salic Law), from *caprīre, from Latin caper. Compare Occitan cabrit and cabrida, Spanish cabrito, Portuguese cabrito, dialectal French chevri.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈβɾit]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kəˈbɾit]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈbɾit]

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• Rhymes: -it

cabrit m (plural cabrits)

1. kid (young goat)

• “cabrit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• chabrit (Limousin, Auvergne, Vivaro-Alpine)
• crabit, crabòt (Gascony)

From Old Occitan [Term?], (compare Catalan cabrit, cabrida), from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin caprītus (attested in Salic Law), from *caprīre, from Latin caper. Compare also Spanish and Portuguese cabrito, dialectal French chevri.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈβɾit/

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cabrit m (plural cabrits)

1. kid (young goat)
2. the meat of this animal

• → French: cabri