cabello

See also: Cabello

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin capillum, accusative of capillus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbeʎo/
• Hyphenation: ca‧bel‧lo

Noun

cabello m (plural cabellos)

1. (usually in the plural, anatomy) hair
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 17r:

     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.

     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.

Descendants

• Spanish: cabello

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish cabello, from Latin capillus (whence English capillary). Compare Galician cabelo, Portuguese cabelo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbeʝo/ [kaˈβ̞e.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbeʝo/ [kaˈβ̞e.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /kaˈbeʎo/ [kaˈβ̞e.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /kaˈbeʃo/ [kaˈβ̞e.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /kaˈbeʒo/ [kaˈβ̞e.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

 

• Rhymes: -eʝo

• Rhymes: -eʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
• Rhymes: -eʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -eʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: ca‧be‧llo

Noun

cabello m (plural cabellos) (parts of Latin America, otherwise rather formal)

1. hair (the mass of hairs on the head)

   Synonym: pelo

Derived terms

• cabello de ángel
• cabello de Venus
• cabelludo
• cortar un cabello en el aire

Related terms

• cabelludo
• capilar

Further reading

• “cabello”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• 2017 May 20, “Trasplante de cabello - Injerto Capilar FUE en España”, in Medican Clinics‎:

  Trasplante de cabello o injerto capilar FUE en España con clínicas en Barcelona y Málaga por 2.995 € hasta 4.500 folículos

  (please add an English translation of this quotation)