Noun: cabeça
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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dixo ſõnaua q̃ tenẏa / .iij. canaſtiellos. blãcos ſobre / mẏ cabeça. en el canaſtiello ſu / ſano auẏa del comer de phara / on. E las aues del cielo comien / del canaſtiello ſobre mẏ. cabeça (He said: "I dreamt I had three white baskets on my head, and on the uppermost basket was all that which the Pharaoh ate, and the birds of the sky ate from the basket upon my head.") [c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 6v. col. 2:]
Nouns inflected like cabeça
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural accusative of capitium (“covering for the head”) (reanalyzed as a feminine singular), from caput (“head”).
Verbs referencing "cabeça"
Spanish Nouns
cabeza, Old Portuguese Nouns
cabeça.
Translations