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caber
English
Etymology
From Scottish Gaelic cabar (“spar, pole”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ke?b?/, /?k??-/
- (US) IPA(key): /?ke?b?/, /?k?-/
- Rhymes: -e?b?(?)
Noun
caber (plural cabers)
- A long, thick log held upright at one end and tossed in the Highland games.
Derived terms
- caber toss
Translations
Anagrams
- Brace, acerb, brace, cabre, cabré
Catalan
Verb
caber
- Alternative form of cabre
Further reading
- “caber” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “caber” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “caber” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “caber” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
Etymology
From Old Portuguese caber, from Latin capere, present active infinitive of capi? (“I take in, contain”), from Proto-Italic *kapi?, from Proto-Indo-European *kh?pyéti, from the root *keh?p- (“to seize, grab”).
Verb
caber (first-person singular present caibo, first-person singular preterite couben, past participle cabido)
- to fit (in something).
- to hold or contain; to be capable of containing.
- first-person singular personal infinitive of caber
- third-person singular personal infinitive of caber
Conjugation
Occitan
Alternative forms
- caupre
Etymology
From Latin capere, present active infinitive of capi? (“I take in, contain”)
Verb
caber
- to fit (in)
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese caber, from Latin capere, present active infinitive of capi? (“I take in, contain”), from Proto-Italic *kapi?, from Proto-Indo-European *kh?pyéti, from the root *keh?p- (“to seize, grab”). Compare Galician caber, Spanish caber, Italian capire (“to understand”) and Romanian înc?pea.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /k?.??e?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.?be(?)/, [k?.?be(?)]
- Hyphenation: ca?ber
Verb
caber (first-person singular present indicative caibo, past participle cabido)
- (transitive with em) to fit (in something, no matter if space or volume is left)
- (transitive with em) to traverse, pass through or across (a way, path, opening etc. no matter if space is left)
- (transitive with em) to hold; to be capable of containing
- (transitive with a) to be responsible for; to be up to somebody
- (transitive with a) to be allotted to, to be distributed to
Conjugation
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:caber.
Synonyms
- (to pass through): passar
- (to be responsible for): competir, pertencer
- (to fall to): calhar
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish caber, from Latin capere, present active infinitive of capi? (“to take in, contain”), from Proto-Italic *kapi?, from Proto-Indo-European *kh?pyéti, from the root *keh?p- (“to seize, grab”). Compare English have, capture, catch and chase.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka?be?/, [ka???e?]
Verb
caber (first-person singular present quepo, first-person singular preterite cupe, past participle cabido)
- (transitive) to fit, enter (to be able to be contained (by something; regardless of whether space or volume remains))
- Synonym: entrar
- (transitive) to traverse, pass through or across (a way, path, door, hole, opening, mouth, orifice, etc.)
- Synonym: pasar
- (transitive) to be held or contained (to be held inside (something) or passed through (regardless of whether space or volume remains))
- (transitive, intransitive) to have, hold, should be (in certain phrases)
- (transitive, figuratively) to be acceptable, accepted, permitted, permissible, allowable, etc.
- Synonym: tener cabida
- (archaic) to take
- (archaic) to understand
- to be possible
Usage notes
- When something or somebody fits into something, in a strict sense, usually an adverb such as justo, justamente, or apenas is added.
- This verb always implies an active sense; i.e., the subject always does the action of this verb, although some translations to English may have a passive form.
Conjugation
Derived terms
- al que le quepa el sayo
- si cabe
Related terms
See also
- ajustar
Further reading
- “caber” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
caber From the web:
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craber
English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?e?b?(?)/
Noun
craber (plural crabers)
- (archaic) The water rat.
- the craber, which some call the water-rat […]
References
craber in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- bracer
craber From the web:
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