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

Spanish

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

 

• Rhymes: -eʝo

• Rhymes: -eʝo
• Rhymes: -eʎo
• Rhymes: -eʃo
• Rhymes: -eʒo

• Syllabification: ca‧be‧llo

Noun

cabello m (plural cabellos)

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

   Synonym: pelo

Derived terms

• cabello de ángel
• cabello de Venus
• cabelludo

 

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], 2024 December 10
• 2017 May 20, “Trasplante de cabello - Injerto Capilar FUE en España”, in Medican Clinics‎^[1]:

  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)