cabelo

== Galician == === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese cabelo (“hair”), from Latin capillus (“hair”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kaˈbɛlo/ [kɑˈβ̞ɛ.lʊ] Rhymes: -ɛlo === Noun === cabelo m (plural cabelos) hair (individual strand) c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 96: Synonym: pelo hair; head of hair Synonym: pelo ==== Derived terms ==== en cabelo === References === Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cabelo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cabelo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (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 == Portuguese == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cabelo (“hair”), from Latin capillus (“hair”). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -elu Hyphenation: ca‧be‧lo === Noun === cabelo m (plural cabelos, diminutive cabelinho, augmentative cabelão) hair, head of hair O cabelo dela era louro. ― Her hair colour was blonde. hair (a single hair filament) Synonym: fio (de cabelo) Há um cabelo na minha sopa! ― There's a hair in my soup! (colloquial) body hair, especially if long Synonym: pelo ==== Usage notes ==== The term cabelo is used for hair that grows on a person's scalp. Hair that grows on other parts of the skin or on non-human animals is pelo. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Guinea-Bissau Creole: kabelu Kabuverdianu: kabelu Kristang: kabelu === Further reading === “cabelo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “cabelo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Verb === cabelo second-person singular voseo imperative of caber combined with lo