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cabbage
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kæb?d?/
- Hyphenation: cab?bage
- Homophones: CABG (one pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -æb?d?
Etymology 1
From Middle English caboche, cabage (“cabbage”; “a certain fish”), a borrowing from Anglo-Norman caboche (“head”), a northern variant of caboce, of uncertain origin. Some authorities derive it from Latin caput (“head”), others from ca- (said to be an expressive prefix) + boce (“hump; bump”)..
Noun
cabbage (countable and uncountable, plural cabbages)
- An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
- (uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
- Cabbage is good for you.
- (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
- After the car crash, he became a cabbage.
- Used as a term of endearment.
- (uncountable, slang) Money.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
- The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
- The cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
- Leftover scraps of fabric.
Synonyms
- (plant): cabbage plant, cole
- (leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable): cole, greens
- (person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage): vegetable
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: kabisi
- ? Abenaki: kabij
Translations
Verb
cabbage (third-person singular simple present cabbages, present participle cabbaging, simple past and past participle cabbaged)
- (intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.
- (intransitive, slang) To do nothing; to idle; veg out.
See also
- brassica
- broccoflower
- broccoli
- broccolini
- Brussels sprouts
- cabbage tree
- carbage
- cauliflower
- Chinese cabbage
- Chinese broccoli, Chinese kale
- collard greens
- kale
- kohlrabi
- sauerkraut
- red cabbage
Etymology 2
Unclear. Perhaps from Dutch *kabbassen, from Old French cabasser (“put into a basket”), from cabas. Alternatively, perhaps from an earlier word *carbage (“shred”), a potential variant of *garbage (“wheat straw”).
Noun
cabbage (uncountable)
- (uncountable, slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.
Verb
cabbage (third-person singular simple present cabbages, present participle cabbaging, simple past and past participle cabbaged)
- (transitive) To purloin or embezzle; to pilfer, to steal.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- Your tailor […] cabbages whole yards of cloth.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
Synonyms
- (purloin): embezzle, pilfer, purloin, steal
References
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crucifer
English
Etymology
From Latin crucifer (“cross-bearer”), from crux (“cross”) + fer? (“I carry, bear”).
Noun
crucifer (plural crucifers)
- (Christianity) A person who carries a cross in a religious procession, a cross bearer.
- (botany) A member of the family Cruciferae, the cabbage family, including cabbage and mustard.
- Note: Brassicaceae may be used as an alternative and equivalent name for this family.
Hyponyms
- (botany): arugula, cabbage, cauliflower, mustard greens, radish, spring greens, watercress
Derived terms
- cruciferous
Translations
Anagrams
- Ferrucci
Latin
Etymology
From crux (“cross”) + fer? (“I carry, bear”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?kru.ki.fer/, [?k??k?f?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kru.t??i.fer/, [?k?u?t??if?r]
Noun
crucifer m (genitive crucifer?); second declension
- the cross-bearer, that is J?s?s Chr?stus
- (historical) the Kreuzer (german coin bearing cross)
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
Related terms
Descendants
References
- crucifer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- crucifer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- crucifer in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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