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cabeza

Pronunciation: /kaˈbeθa/

“cabeza” is a Galician word. Its 8 meanings in English:

noun

  1. head
  2. head of a cabbage
  3. extreme of an axle
  4. extreme or top of something
  5. crown of a tree
  6. mountaintop, summit
  7. mind, reasoning
  8. milk skin

In Galician

  1. Parte superior do corpo humano.
  2. Parte do solombo correspondente á parte máis grosa deste e onde se atopan as chamadas orellas.

Etymology

From Old Galician-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.

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