cabre

See also: cabré

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈbɹeɪ/, /ˈkɑː.bɹeɪ/

Adjective

cabre

1. Alternative spelling of cabré.

Noun

cabre (plural cabres)

1. (obsolete or historical and generally offensive) A person of mixed black and mulatto descent.
   • 1995, B. W. Higman, Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834, University of West Indies Press, →ISBN, page 154:

     Further, the registration returns for some colonies provided only a generalized “coloured” or “mulatto” category, […] The Trinidad registration returns certainly provide clear examples of mulatto-black couples having cabre children, but […]

Coordinate terms

• (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto

References

• The British Dictionary, in two volumes, illustrated (1933, Odhams Press Limited, London WC2)

Anagrams

• Brace, acerb, brace, caber

Catalan

Alternative forms

• caber, cabre-hi

Etymology

Inherited from Latin capere, from Proto-Italic *kapiō, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *kap- (“to seize, grab”). Compare Occitan caupre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈka.βɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈka.bɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈka.bɾe]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Homophone: cabra

Verb

cabre (first-person singular present cabo, first-person singular preterite cabí, past participle cabut)

1. to fit, as the possibility to enter or be contained in a given space

Conjugation

    Conjugation of cabre (second conjugation, irregular)

infinitive			cabre
gerund			cabent
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		cabut		cabuda
		plural		cabuts		cabudes
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	cabo	caps	cap	cabem	cabeu	caben
	imperfect	cabia	cabies	cabia	cabíem	cabíeu	cabien
	future	cabré	cabràs	cabrà	cabrem	cabreu	cabran
	preterite	cabí	caberes	cabé	cabérem	cabéreu	caberen
	conditional	cabria	cabries	cabria	cabríem	cabríeu	cabrien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	càpiga	càpigues	càpiga	capiguem	capigueu	càpiguen
	imperfect	cabés	cabessis	cabés	cabéssim	cabéssiu	cabessin
imperative		—	tu	vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres vós	vostès
	affirmative	—	cap	càpiga	capiguem	cabeu	càpiguen
	negative (no)	—	no càpigues	no càpiga	no capiguem	no capigueu	no càpiguen

Further reading

• “cabre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cabre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “cabre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cabre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Anagrams

• becar, breca, caber, rabec

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kabʁ/
• Homophones: cabrent, cabres

Verb

cabre

1. inflection of cabrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• berça, crabe