Where does “cabrero” come from?
cabrero (Spanish) comes from Latin caprarius, from Latin caper, from Proto-Italic *kapros, from Proto-Indo-European kápros — he-goat, billy goat.
cabrero (Spanish): goatherd
Ancestry of “cabrero”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | caprarius | goatherd |
| 2 | Latin | caper | a male goat, billy goat; vocative singular of... |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | *kapros | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | kápros | he-goat, billy goat |
Words derived from “cabrero”