"cabello" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Old Spanish]

IPA: /kaˈbeʎo/ Forms: cabellos [plural]
Etymology: From Latin capillum, accusative of capillus. Etymology templates: {{inh|osp|la|capillum}} Latin capillum Head templates: {{head|osp|noun|g=m|g2=|head=|sort=}} cabello m, {{osp-noun|m}} cabello m (plural cabellos)
  1. (usually in the plural, anatomy) hair Tags: masculine, plural-normally
    Sense id: en-cabello-osp-noun-TcIVm7oF Categories (other): Old Spanish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Anatomy, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 88 11 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 82 16 1 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences

Noun [Spanish]

IPA: /kaˈbeʝo/, [kaˈβ̞e.ʝo], /kaˈbeʝo/, [kaˈβ̞e.ʝo], /kaˈbeʎo/, [kaˈβ̞e.ʎo], /kaˈbeʃo/, [kaˈβ̞e.ʃo], /kaˈbeʒo/, [kaˈβ̞e.ʒo] Forms: cabellos [plural]
Rhymes: -eʝo, -eʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain), -eʎo (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines), -eʃo (Buenos Aires and environs), -eʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Etymology: Inherited from Old Spanish cabello, from Latin capillus (whence English capillary). Compare Galician cabelo, Portuguese cabelo. Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|es|osp|cabello|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old Spanish cabello, {{inh+|es|osp|cabello}} Inherited from Old Spanish cabello, {{inh|es|la|capillus}} Latin capillus, {{cog|en|capillary}} English capillary, {{cog|gl|cabelo}} Galician cabelo, {{cog|pt|cabelo}} Portuguese cabelo Head templates: {{es-noun|m}} cabello m (plural cabellos), {{tlb|es|in colloquial usage more common in|_|Latin America}} (in colloquial usage more common in Latin America)
  1. (uncountable unless referring to hair on multiple heads, etc.) hair (mass of hairs) Tags: masculine, usually Synonyms: pelo
    Sense id: en-cabello-es-noun-S2CGvFxA Categories (other): Spanish entries with incorrect language header, Hair Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 91 9 Disambiguation of Hair: 57 43
  2. (countable) hair strand Tags: countable, masculine Synonyms: pelo
    Sense id: en-cabello-es-noun-QZHNQR6U
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cabello de ángel, cabello de Venus, cabelludo, cortar un cabello en el aire Related terms: cabelludo, capilar

Inflected forms

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      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "cabello"
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "osp",
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        "3": "capillum"
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      "expansion": "Latin capillum",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin capillum, accusative of capillus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cabellos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  ],
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        "sort": ""
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      "args": {
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        "ca",
        "bel",
        "lo"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
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          "parents": [],
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              141,
              149
            ]
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              134,
              138
            ]
          ],
          "english": "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.",
          "ref": "c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 17r:",
          "text": "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.",
          "translation": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      ],
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        "plural-normally"
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        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/kaˈbeʎo/"
    }
  ],
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "cabello de ángel"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "cabello de Venus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "cabelludo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "cortar un cabello en el aire"
    }
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        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Old Spanish cabello",
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    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Old Spanish cabello",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "capillus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin capillus",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "capillary"
      },
      "expansion": "English capillary",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gl",
        "2": "cabelo"
      },
      "expansion": "Galician cabelo",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "cabelo"
      },
      "expansion": "Portuguese cabelo",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Old Spanish cabello, from Latin capillus (whence English capillary). Compare Galician cabelo, Portuguese cabelo.",
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "cabello m (plural cabellos)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "in colloquial usage more common in",
        "3": "_",
        "4": "Latin America"
      },
      "expansion": "(in colloquial usage more common in Latin America)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ca‧be‧llo"
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "ca‧be‧llo"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "cabelludo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    }
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          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
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        },
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          "kind": "other",
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          "name": "Hair",
          "orig": "es:Hair",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017 May 20, “Trasplante de cabello - Injerto Capilar FUE en España”, in Medican Clinics:",
          "text": "Trasplante de cabello o injerto capilar FUE en España con clínicas en Barcelona y Málaga por 2.995 € hasta 4.500 folículos",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hair (mass of hairs)"
      ],
      "id": "en-cabello-es-noun-S2CGvFxA",
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        [
          "hair",
          "hair"
        ]
      ],
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        "(uncountable unless referring to hair on multiple heads, etc.) hair (mass of hairs)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in colloquial usage more common in Latin America"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pelo"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "hair strand"
      ],
      "id": "en-cabello-es-noun-QZHNQR6U",
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        [
          "hair",
          "hair"
        ],
        [
          "strand",
          "strand"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) hair strand"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in colloquial usage more common in Latin America"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pelo"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kaˈbeʝo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kaˈβ̞e.ʝo]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kaˈbeʝo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kaˈβ̞e.ʝo]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kaˈbeʎo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kaˈβ̞e.ʎo]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kaˈbeʃo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kaˈβ̞e.ʃo]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kaˈbeʒo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kaˈβ̞e.ʒo]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eʝo"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eʎo (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cabello"
}
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    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "es:Hair"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "cabello"
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  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "osp",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "capillum"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin capillum",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin capillum, accusative of capillus.",
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    {
      "form": "cabellos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "osp",
        "2": "noun",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
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      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "cabello m (plural cabellos)",
      "name": "osp-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "ca",
        "bel",
        "lo"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old Spanish",
  "lang_code": "osp",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old Spanish lemmas",
        "Old Spanish masculine nouns",
        "Old Spanish nouns",
        "Old Spanish terms derived from Latin",
        "Old Spanish terms inherited from Latin",
        "Old Spanish terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "osp-noun needing attention",
        "osp:Anatomy"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              141,
              149
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              134,
              138
            ]
          ],
          "english": "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.",
          "ref": "c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 17r:",
          "text": "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.",
          "translation": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hair"
      ],
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        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "hair",
          "hair"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(usually in the plural, anatomy) hair"
      ],
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        "masculine",
        "plural-normally"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kaˈbeʎo/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cabello"
}

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    "Rhymes:Spanish/eʃo",
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    "Rhymes:Spanish/eʎo",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/eʎo/3 syllables",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/eʒo",
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    "Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish",
    "Spanish terms inherited from Latin",
    "Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish",
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      "word": "cabello de ángel"
    },
    {
      "word": "cabello de Venus"
    },
    {
      "word": "cabelludo"
    },
    {
      "word": "cortar un cabello en el aire"
    }
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      },
      "expansion": "Galician cabelo",
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    },
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        "1": "pt",
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      },
      "expansion": "Portuguese cabelo",
      "name": "cog"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Old Spanish cabello, from Latin capillus (whence English capillary). Compare Galician cabelo, Portuguese cabelo.",
  "forms": [
    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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      "expansion": "cabello m (plural cabellos)",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "in colloquial usage more common in",
        "3": "_",
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      "name": "tlb"
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  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ca‧be‧llo"
  ],
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    {
      "parts": [
        "ca‧be‧llo"
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "cabelludo"
    },
    {
      "word": "capilar"
    }
  ],
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        "Spanish terms with quotations",
        "Spanish uncountable nouns"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2017 May 20, “Trasplante de cabello - Injerto Capilar FUE en España”, in Medican Clinics:",
          "text": "Trasplante de cabello o injerto capilar FUE en España con clínicas en Barcelona y Málaga por 2.995 € hasta 4.500 folículos",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hair (mass of hairs)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hair",
          "hair"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "uncountable unless referring to hair on multiple heads",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable unless referring to hair on multiple heads, etc.) hair (mass of hairs)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in colloquial usage more common in Latin America"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pelo"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish countable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hair strand"
      ],
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        [
          "hair",
          "hair"
        ],
        [
          "strand",
          "strand"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) hair strand"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in colloquial usage more common in Latin America"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pelo"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kaˈbeʝo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kaˈβ̞e.ʝo]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kaˈbeʝo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kaˈβ̞e.ʝo]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kaˈbeʎo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kaˈβ̞e.ʎo]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kaˈbeʃo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kaˈβ̞e.ʃo]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kaˈbeʒo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kaˈβ̞e.ʒo]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eʝo"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eʎo (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cabello"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-04-01 using wiktextract (7de0cf9 and 9452535). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.