cabro

See also: cabrò and cabró

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.bro/
• Rhymes: -abro
• Hyphenation: cà‧bro

Verb

cabro

1. first-person singular present indicative of cabrare

Anagrams

• braco, carbo-, cobra, corba

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin caprum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabɾo/ [ˈka.β̞ɾo]
• Rhymes: -abɾo
• Syllabification: ca‧bro

Noun

cabro m (plural cabros, feminine cabra, feminine plural cabras)

1. male goat

   Synonyms: chivo, cabrón

2. (Chile, Paraguay, colloquial, Puerto Rico) kid, boy (a child)

   Synonyms: chaval, chico, muchacho

3. (Peru, vulgar) fag (homosexual man)

   Synonyms: chivo, maricón

Usage notes

• While the general rule for gender-paired nouns in Romance languages is that the male is used when the gender is unknown, the words for goat descending from the Latin capra are an exception, with the feminine form used for goats of indeterminate gender.

Related terms

• cabra

 

Further reading

• “cabro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10