different between cabre vs cambre

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

cambre (plural cambres)

1. Obsolete form of camber.
   • 1858, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, page #613:

     To the southward of this is another entrance which opens into a port or cambre for boats and lumps, and then into a smaller basin?de?flot for the smaller steamers, and for the loading of lighters with provisions, &c.

2. Alternative spelling of cambré

Anagrams

• camber, cembra

French

Verb

cambre

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of cambrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cambrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cambrer
5. second-person singular imperative of cambrer

Italian

Noun

cambre f

1. plural of cambra

Old French

Noun

cambre f (oblique plural cambres, nominative singular cambre, nominative plural cambres)

1. Alternative form of chambre