cabeza

From Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural (reanalyzed as a feminine singular) of Latin capitium, diminutive of caput.

cabeza f

1. (anatomy) head

From Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural (reanalyzed as a feminine singular) of Latin capitium, diminutive of caput.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbeθa/, [kaˈβ̞e.θa]

cabeza f (plural cabeces)

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

From Spanish cabeza.

cabeza

1. head

Since the 12th century in Latin charters. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cabeça, from Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural (reanalyzed as a feminine singular) of Latin capitium, diminutive of caput (“head”). Cognate with Portuguese cabeça and Spanish cabeza.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈβeθa̝/, (western) /kaˈβesa̝/

cabeza f (plural cabezas)

1. head
2. head of a cabbage
3. extreme of an axle
4. extreme or top of something
5. crown of a tree
6. (geography) mountaintop, summit

   Synonym: pena

7. (figuratively) mind, reasoning
8. (usually in the plural) milk skin

• cabeceira
• Cabeceira
• Cabeza
• cabezo
• Cabezo

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

• cabeça (archaic)

From Old Spanish cabeça, from Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural (reanalyzed as a feminine singular) of Latin capitium, diminutive of caput.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kaˈbeθa/ [kaˈβ̞e.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /kaˈbesa/ [kaˈβ̞e.sa]

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• (Spain) Rhymes: -eθa
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: ca‧be‧za

cabeza f (plural cabezas)

1. (anatomy) head
2. mind (in certain phrases)

   perder la cabeza ― to lose one's mind

   No puedo quitarme a esa chica de la cabeza.

   I can't get that girl out of my head.

(diminutive cabecilla or cabecita) (augmentative cabezazo, cabezón, cabezota, or cabezudo)

cabeza m (plural cabezas)

1. (colloquial, Andalusia) guy, dude

• “cabeza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014