cabro

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.bro/
• Rhymes: -abro
• Hyphenation: cà‧bro

cabro

1. first-person singular present indicative of cabrare

• braco, carbo-, cobra, corba

Inherited from Latin caprum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabɾo/ [ˈka.β̞ɾo]
• Rhymes: -abɾo
• Syllabification: ca‧bro

cabro m (plural cabros, feminine cabra, feminine plural cabras)

1. male goat

   Synonyms: chivo, cabrón

2. (Chile, Paraguay, colloquial, Puerto Rico) kid, boy (a child)

   Synonyms: chaval, chico, muchacho

3. (Peru, vulgar) fag (homosexual man)

   Synonyms: chivo, maricón

• While the general rule for gender-paired nouns in Romance languages is that the male is used when the gender is unknown, the words for goat descending from the Latin capra are an exception, with the feminine form used for goats of indeterminate gender.

• “cabro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28