cabrito

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cabrito (“kid”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

cabrito (uncountable)

1. (cooking) Meat from a young goat; kid.
   • 1995, Cheryl Alters Jamison, Bill Jamison, The Border Cookbook: Authentic Home Cooking of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, page 223:

     Mutton rivaled beef in prominence until this century, and cabrito, or kid, remains a major food in Nuevo León.

   • 2001, Mary Faulk Koock, The Texas Cookbook: From Barbecue to Banquet-- An Informal View of Dining and Entertaining the Texas Way‎^[1], page 65:

     Mr. Dean O. Smith, who is the game warden in the Dripping Springs area, barbecues the cabrito for us, and what a treat that is! Cabrito is a very young Spanish goat between one and a half and two years old.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 116:

     Consuela and Sullivan had been cooking all night so there was plenty of beef and cabrito.

Synonyms

• kid

Translations

meat of a young goat

Anagrams

• Taboric, corbita

Galician

Alternative forms

• cabirto

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabrito (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): cabra +‎ -ito; may have originally corresponded to a Vulgar Latin or Late Latin caprītus (attested in Salic Law). Cognate with Portuguese cabrito and Spanish cabrito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɑˈβɾitʊ]

Noun

cabrito m (plural cabritos, feminine cabrito, feminine plural cabritos)

1. kid (young goat)

   Synonyms: cabuxo, rexelo

Related terms

• cabra

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cabrito”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cabrito”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cabrito”, 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), “cabrito”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cabrito”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Old Spanish

Etymology

From cabra (“goat”) +‎ -ito. Compare Old Galician-Portuguese cabrito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbɾito/

Noun

cabrito m (plural cabritos)

1. kid (young goat)
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5v:

     priſierõ la ueſtidura. de ioſeph e degollaron vn cabrito. ⁊ enſangrẽtarõ la en la ſangre. ⁊ enbiarõ la aſo padre q̃ la connocieſſe. e dixieron eſto fallamo^s

     [Then] they took Joseph's clothing and beheaded a young goat, and bloodied it in its blood. And they sent it to their father, that he would recognize it, and said, “We found this.”

Descendants

• Spanish: cabrito

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cabrito (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). By surface analysis, cabra +‎ -ito. May have originally corresponded to a Vulgar Latin or Late Latin caprītus (attested in Salic Law), from *caprio (“*caprīre”), from Latin caper (which would have normally yielded *cabrido), but was influenced by the Portuguese diminutive suffix -ito (from Late Latin -ittus). Compare Spanish cabrito, Aragonese crabido, crabito, crapito, Catalan and Occitan cabrit, dialectal French chevri.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈbɾi.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈbɾi.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈbɾi.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈbɾi.tu/ [kɐˈβɾi.tu]

Noun

cabrito m (plural cabritos, feminine cabrita, feminine plural cabritas)

1. kid (young goat)
2. (cooking) lamb

   cabrito assado

   roast lamb

3. (Portugal, colloquial, soccer) rainbow kick.

   Synonyms: (Brazil) lambreta, (Brazil) carretilha, (Brazil) chapéu-mexicano

Further reading

• “cabrito”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• “cabrito”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish cabrito. Analyzable as cabra (“goat”) +‎ -ito; may have originally corresponded to a Vulgar Latin or Late Latin caprītus (attested in Salic Law), as the perfect passive participle of a verb *caprīre (“give birth (of goats)”), from Latin caper (which would have normally yielded *cabrido), but was influenced by the Spanish diminutive suffix -ito (from Late Latin -ittus). Compare Portuguese cabrito, Aragonese crabido, crabito, crapito, Catalan cabrit, Occitan cabrit, dialectal French chevri.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbɾito/ [kaˈβ̞ɾi.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: ca‧bri‧to

Noun

cabrito m (plural cabritos)

1. kid (young goat)

Related terms

• cabra

 

Further reading

• “cabrito”, 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