different between cabriolet vs cab

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæ.b?i.??le?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

cabriolet (plural cabriolets)

1. An automobile with a retractable top.
2. (originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.

Synonyms

• (automobile): convertible
• (carriage pulled by a horse): roadster

Derived terms

• cab

Translations

Anagrams

• bacteriol., carbolite

Dutch

Etymology

From French cabriolet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?.bri.o??l?(t)/
• Hyphenation: ca?bri?o?let
• Rhymes: -?, -?t

Noun

cabriolet m (plural cabrioletten or cabriolets, diminutive cabrioletje n)

1. cabriolet, convertible (car with a convertible top)
2. cabriolet (light carriage with a convertible top, drawn by one horse)

Derived terms

• cabrio

French

Etymology

From Italian cabriola, cabriole (“horse caper”) +? -et, from Latin capreolus, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”); see also Old Norse hafr (“he-goat”), Old English hæfr, Welsh gafr, Old Irish gabor. Doublet of Chevrolet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.b?i.j?.l?/

Noun

cabriolet m (plural cabriolets)

1. a cabriolet carriage
2. a convertible car
3. a knotted cord, each end tied to wood, to tie criminals to by the wrists
4. a Directoire style hat type

Descendants

See also

• coupé-cabriolet

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “cabriolet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Alternative forms

• cabriolè

Etymology

Borrowing from French cabriolet, from Italian cabriola.

Noun

cabriolet f (invariable)

1. (automobiles) cabriolet

   Synonym: cabrio

Further reading

• cabriolet in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Swedish

Etymology

From French cabriolet.

Noun

cabriolet c

1. cabriolet (vehicle)

Declension

Synonyms

• cab

Further reading

• cabriolet in Svensk ordbok.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæb/
• Rhymes: -æb
• Hyphenation: cab

Etymology 1

Clipping of cabriolet

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

1. A taxi; a taxicab.
2. Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver

   Synonym: driver's compartment

3. Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower
4. Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet
   • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

     Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!

Hyponyms

• (compartment): crew cab, Eurocab, sleeper cab
• (four-wheeled carriage): black cab, hackney cab, Hansom cab, king cab

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cab (third-person singular simple present cabs, present participle cabbing, simple past and past participle cabbed)

1. To travel by taxicab.

Etymology 2

From Hebrew ??? (káv).

Alternative forms

• kab

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

1. (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.3:

     […] in the famine of Samaria […] the fourth part of a cab of pigeon's dung was sold for five pieces of silver […]

Meronyms

• (liquid volume): log (¹?₄ cab); hin (3 cabs); bath (18 cabs); cor, kor, homer, chomer (180 cabs)
• (dry volume): seah (6 cabs); ephah (18 cabs); lethek, lethech (90 cabs); homer, chomer, cor, kor (180 cabs)

Etymology 3

Clipping of cabinet

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

1. (video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
2. (software, Windows) Alternative form of CAB; Clipping of cabinet file.; a compress library archive file.

References

• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online
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Anagrams

• -bac-, A. B. C., A.B.C., ABC, B. C. A., B.C.A., BAC, BCA, CBA, bac

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cab.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kab?]

Noun

cab m (genitive singular caib, nominative plural cabanna)

1. mouth
2. muzzle

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cab”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Italian

Etymology

From English cab

Noun

cab m (invariable)

1. Hansom cab

Anagrams

• abc

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cab m (genitive singular caib, plural caban)

1. mouth

   Dùin do chab!

   Shut your mouth!

Somali

Verb

cab

1. drink

Swedish

Noun

cab c

1. a convertible car, one with a foldable roof; short for cabriolet

Declension