different between cadre vs cabre

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cadre, from Italian quadro (“framed painting, square”), from Latin quadrum, from quattuor (“four”). The American pronunciations in /e?/ may be due to a mistaken assumption that this word comes from Spanish or Italian, when in fact it is strictly French (the Spanish and Italian equivalents are respectively cuadro and quadro).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.d?/, /?k??.d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?.d?e?/, /?kæd.?e?/, /?k?.d??/, /?kæd.?i/, /?k?.d?i/, /?k?.d??/

Noun

cadre (plural cadres)

1. A frame or framework.
   • 1848, Parliamentary Papers (volume 27, page 283)

     […] He took away the frame itself, as well as the notice.
     Mr. MacCulloch. I recollect Mr. Dobrée stating that his reason for taking the cadre was, that the notice was pasted, and that he could not unpaste it.

2. (military) The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
3. (chiefly in communism) The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.
   • 1997, Jae Ho Chung, China's Provinces in Reform: Class, community and political culture, edited by David S.G. Goodman, Routledge, p. 146:

     Finally, the exchange, circulation and education of local cadres constitute another key strategy implemented by the provincial leadership in its efforts to diffuse economic development into the backward inland region.
4. A small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cedar, Cerda, Cerdà, Dacre, acred, arced, cader, cared, cedar, decar, e-card, ecard, raced

French

Etymology

From Italian quadro (“framed painting, square”), from Latin quadrum, from quattuor (“four”). Cf. Old French querre, inherited from the same source; see also carre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?d?/

Noun

cadre m (plural cadres)

1. frame (of a door or picture)
2. backbone (of an organization)
3. box, square (on a printed page)
4. (business) executive
5. scope, framework
6. (military) cadre
7. context, parameters
8. frame (of a bicycle)

Derived terms

• cadrage
• cadrer
• dans le cadre de...
• décadrer
• encadrer

Related terms

• carre
• carreau
• carrer
• équerre

Descendants

• ? English: cadre
• ? German: Kader
• ? Russian: ???? (kadr)
  • ? Kazakh: ???? (kadr)

Verb

cadre

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• carde
• crade

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