cabelo

Galician

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cabelo (“hair”), from Latin capillus (“hair”).

cabelo m (plural cabelos)

hair (individual strand)
- c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 96:
  Et avia os cabelos da cabeça et da barba vermellos
  And the hairs of his head and of his beard were red
Synonym: pelo
hair; head of hair
- 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 453:
  El rrey Príamos era forte caualeyro et de forte coraçõ et moy duro et sen medo a sua gisa, mays pero, poys que esto oýo dizer, fóysselle alçãdo o cabelo, et fóysselle tomãdo hũ frío, et ouuo grã dulta et grã pauor de Éytor
  king Priam was a strong knight and had a strong heart and was very hard and fearless in his own way; but, as soon as he heard this, his hair raised, and a cold spree took him, and had a big fear and a big fright of Hector
Synonym: pelo

“cabelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“cabelo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“cabelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“cabelo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“cabelo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Portuguese cabelo (“hair”), from Latin capillus (“hair”), from caput (“head”) + pilus (“hair”).

cabelo m (plural cabelos)

hair, head of hair
O cabelo dela era louro.
Her hair colour was blonde.
hair (a single hair filament)
Há um cabelo na minha sopa!
There's a hair in my soup!

Synonym: fio (de cabelo)

Cabelo is used for hair that grows on a person’s scalp. Hair that grows on other parts of the skin is pelo.