cabestro

cabestro (plural cabestros)

1. A trained steer used in bullfighting.

• cabresto

Attested since the 13th century. From Latin capistrum (“halter”). Cognate with Portuguese cabresto.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈβestɾo̝/

cabestro m (plural cabestros)

1. rope used to secure the load

   Synonyms: adival, liame, luria, sedeño, treixa, trelo

2. halter

   Synonyms: trela, xácoma

3. frenulum

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cabresto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cabestro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cabestro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cabestro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cabestro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbestɾo/ [kaˈβ̞es.t̪ɾo]
• Rhymes: -estɾo
• Syllabification: ca‧bes‧tro

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin capistrum.

cabestro m (plural cabestros)

1. halter, headcollar (animal's headgear)
2. (bullfighting) leading bull

cabestro

1. first-person singular present indicative of cabestrar

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