different between cabre vs cabree

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??b?e?/, /?k??.b?e?/

Adjective

cabre

1. Alternative spelling of cabré

Noun

cabre (plural cabres)

1. (obsolete or historical and generally offensive) A person of mixed black and mulatto descent.
   • 1995, B. W. Higman, Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834, University of West Indies Press (?ISBN), page 154:

     Further, the registration returns for some colonies provided only a generalized “coloured” or “mulatto” category, […] The Trinidad registration returns certainly provide clear examples of mulatto-black couples having cabre children, but […]

Coordinate terms

• (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto

References

• The British Dictionary, in two volumes, illustrated (1933, Odhams Press Limited, London WC2)

Anagrams

• Brace, acerb, brace, caber

Catalan

Alternative forms

• caber, cabre-hi

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin capere, present active infinitive of capi?, from Proto-Italic *kapi?, from Proto-Indo-European *kh?pyéti, from the root *keh?p- (“to seize, grab”). Compare Occitan caupre.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ka.b??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka.b?e/
• Homophone: cabra

Verb

cabre (first-person singular present cabo, past participle cabut)

1. to fit, as the possibility to enter or be contained in a given space

Conjugation

Anagrams

• becar, breca, caber, rabec

Further reading

• “cabre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cabre” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cabre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cabre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kab?/
• Homophones: cabrent, cabres

Verb

cabre

1. inflection of cabrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• berça, crabe

English

Noun

cabree (plural cabrees)

1. Archaic form of cabri (“pronghorn”).

Anagrams

• Bearce, becare

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?b?ee/, [ka????e.e]

Verb

cabree

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of cabrear.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of cabrear.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of cabrear.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of cabrear.