Where does “cabra” come from?
cabra (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese cabra, from Latin capra, from Latin caper, from Proto-Italic *kapros, from Proto-Indo-European kápros — he-goat, billy goat.
cabra (Galician): goat; blackbelly rosefish; stains in the legs...
Definitions
- goat; blackbelly rosefish; stains in the legs...
Ancestry of “cabra”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old Portuguese | cabra | — |
| 2 | Latin | capra | a she-goat; the odor of armpits; vocative... |
| 3 | Latin | caper | a male goat, billy goat; vocative singular of... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *kapros | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | kápros | he-goat, billy goat |