Where does “cabrón” come from?

cabrón (Spanish) comes from Spanish cabra, from Old Spanish cabra, from Latin capra, from Latin caper, from Proto-Italic *kapros, from Proto-Indo-European kápros — he-goat, billy goat.

cabrón (Spanish): billy goat; coward; bastard, motherfucker

Definitions

  1. billy goat; coward; bastard, motherfucker

Ancestry of “cabrón”, step by step

cabrón traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Spanish cabra

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishcabrafemale goat; goat; girl
2Old Spanishcabra
3Latincapraa she-goat; the odor of armpits; vocative...
4Latincapera male goat, billy goat; vocative singular of...
5Proto-Italic*kaproshe-goat
6Proto-Indo-Europeankáproshe-goat, billy goat

via Old Portuguese cabron

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesecabron
2Old Portuguesecabra

Words derived from “cabrón

Every word from Proto-Indo-European káprosEvery word from Proto-Italic *kaprosEvery word from Latin caper