cabecera
Spanish
Alternative forms
- cabezera (obsolete)
Etymology
From cabeza (“head”) + -era. Compare Portuguese cabeceira.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /kabeˈθeɾa/ [ka.β̞eˈθe.ɾa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /kabeˈseɾa/ [ka.β̞eˈse.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -eɾa
- Syllabification: ca‧be‧ce‧ra
Noun
cabecera f (plural cabeceras)
- headboard, bedhead
- Synonyms: cabecero, cabezal
- head (of company)
- (Philippines) seat of government
- Synonym: capital
- headline, heading, top
- (television, film) opening credits, intro, title sequence, opening sequence, opening title sequence
- Synonym: intro
- headwaters
- (computing, networking) header
Derived terms
- de cabecera
- médico de cabecera
Descendants
- → Hiligaynon: kabesera
- → Tagalog: kabisera
Further reading
- “cabecera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014