different between mulatto vs cabre

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish mulato (“of mixed breed, young mule”), from mulo (“mule”), from Latin m?lus (“mule”). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /mu?l?to?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /m(j)??læt??/
• Rhymes: -??t??, -æt??

Noun

mulatto (plural mulattoes or mulattos)

1. (historical, now sometimes derogatory) A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent or two mulatto parents.

   Synonyms: mestizo, metis

Coordinate terms

mixed black and white:

• cabre, cob (cobb), griffe, Sambo (samboe) (3/4 black)
• marabou (5/8 black)
• costee, quadroon (1/4 black)
• mustee (mestee) / octoroon (octaroon) (1/8 black)
• fustee, hexadecaroon, mustiphini (1/16 black)
• quintroon (quintoon) (1/16 or 1/32 black)
• dustee (1/32 black)

mixed white and Native

• castizo (1/4 Native)
• mameluco (1/2 Native)
• mestizo (any mix, especially 1/2 Native)

Related terms

• mulatta, mulattress (female)

Translations

See also

• brown
• browning
• half-breed
• half blood
• maroon
• mixed-race
• red nigger

References

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu?lat.to/
• Rhymes: -atto

Adjective

mulatto (feminine mulatta, masculine plural mulatti, feminine plural mulatte)

1. (relational) mulatto

Noun

mulatto m (plural mulatti, feminine mulatta)

1. mulatto

Anagrams

• multato

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