cabestan

== French == === Etymology === From Middle French cabestant, of uncertain origin. Either from Old Occitan cabestran (“instrument to coil cords”), a noun use of present participle of verb cabestrar, from cabestre (“pulley rope”) ; or from Spanish cabestrante, cabrestante, from cabestrar (“to bind with a halter”), from cabestro (“halter”), from Latin capistrum (“halter”), from capere (“to hold”) (see capacious); or perhaps the Spanish is from Latin caper (“goat”) + -stans, present participle of stare (“to stand”); compare French chèvre (“she-goat”), also a machine for raising heavy weights. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ka.bɛs.tɑ̃/ === Noun === cabestan m (plural cabestans) capstan (vertical cleated drum or cylinder) ==== Derived terms ==== nœud de cabestan === Further reading === “cabestan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French cabestan. === Noun === cabestan n (plural cabestane) capstan (vertical cleated drum or cylinder) ==== Declension ====