"cabeça" meaning in Portuguese

See cabeça in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /kaˈbe.sɐ/ [Brazil], /kaˈbe.sɐ/ [Brazil], /kaˈbe.sa/ [Southern-Brazil], /kɐˈbe.sɐ/ [Portugal], [kɐˈβe.sɐ] [Portugal], /kaˈbe.sa/ [Northeast-Brazil], /kɐˈbe.sɐ/ (note: Rural Central Brazil) Forms: cabeças [plural]
Rhymes: -esɐ Etymology: From Old Galician-Portuguese cabeça, from Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural (reanalyzed as a feminine singular) of Latin capitium, from caput. Etymology templates: {{inh|pt|roa-opt|cabeça}} Old Galician-Portuguese cabeça, {{inh|pt|VL.|capitia}} Vulgar Latin capitia, {{inh|pt|la|capitium}} Latin capitium, {{m|la|caput}} caput Head templates: {{pt-noun|f}} cabeça f (plural cabeças)
  1. (anatomy) head (part of the body) Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-cabeça-pt-noun-xMcPJ0x2 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
  2. head (topmost, foremost, or leading part) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-cabeça-pt-noun-aa-XTuQz Categories (other): Portuguese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 26 60 2 12
  3. (figurative) sense Tags: feminine, figuratively
    Sense id: en-cabeça-pt-noun-UUbyXcUH Categories (other): Portuguese masculine and feminine nouns by sense, Portuguese nouns with irregular gender Disambiguation of Portuguese masculine and feminine nouns by sense: 14 12 59 16 Disambiguation of Portuguese nouns with irregular gender: 23 22 41 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cabêça [obsolete] Derived forms: cabecinha [diminutive], cabeção [augmentative], cabeçona [augmentative]

Noun

IPA: /kaˈbe.sɐ/ [Brazil], /kaˈbe.sɐ/ [Brazil], /kaˈbe.sa/ [Southern-Brazil], /kɐˈbe.sɐ/ [Portugal], [kɐˈβe.sɐ] [Portugal], /kaˈbe.sa/ [Northeast-Brazil], /kɐˈbe.sɐ/ (note: Rural Central Brazil) Forms: cabeças [plural]
Rhymes: -esɐ Etymology: From Old Galician-Portuguese cabeça, from Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural (reanalyzed as a feminine singular) of Latin capitium, from caput. Etymology templates: {{inh|pt|roa-opt|cabeça}} Old Galician-Portuguese cabeça, {{inh|pt|VL.|capitia}} Vulgar Latin capitia, {{inh|pt|la|capitium}} Latin capitium, {{m|la|caput}} caput Head templates: {{pt-noun|mfbysense}} cabeça m or f by sense (plural cabeças)
  1. (colloquial) head (leader, boss) Tags: by-personal-gender, colloquial, feminine, masculine
    Sense id: en-cabeça-pt-noun-5sZTxX5d
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cabêça [obsolete]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    {
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        "Portugal"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kaˈbe.sa/",
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        "Northeast-Brazil"
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      "word": "cabêça"
    }
  ],
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