cabeceira
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cabeçeira (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): synchronically cabeza + -eira. Cognate with Portuguese cabeceira and Spanish cabecera.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kaβeˈθei̯ɾɐ], (western) [kaβeˈsei̯ɾɐ]
Noun
cabeceira f (plural cabeceiras)
- (furniture) headboard, bedhead
- Synonym: testeiro
- (fishing) first floater of a longline
- Antonym: cúa
- extreme or top of a field
- Antonyms: fondeira, illargada
- (archaic) head of government
- headwaters
Related terms
- cabeza (“head”)
References
- “cabeçeira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “cabeçe” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “cabeceira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cabeceira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cabeceira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese
Etymology
From cabeça (“head”) + -eira. Compare Spanish cabecera.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.beˈse(j).ɾɐ/ [ka.beˈse(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.beˈse(j).ɾa/ [ka.beˈse(ɪ̯).ɾa]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.bɨˈsɐj.ɾɐ/ [kɐ.βɨˈsɐj.ɾɐ]
- (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.bɨˈsej.ɾɐ/ [kɐ.βɨˈsej.ɾɐ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.bɨˈse.ɾɐ/ [kɐ.βɨˈse.ɾɐ]
- Hyphenation: ca‧be‧cei‧ra
Noun
cabeceira f (plural cabeceiras)
- (furniture) headboard (of a bed)
- (especially in the plural) source of a river
Further reading
- “cabeceira” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.