# cabre
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kəˈbɹeɪ/, /ˈkɑː.bɹeɪ/

### Adjective

cabre
* Alternative spelling of cabré

### Noun

cabre (plural cabres)
* (obsolete or historical and generally offensive) A person of mixed black and mulatto descent.
** 1995, B. W. Higman, Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834, University of West Indies Press, →ISBN, page 154:Further, the registration returns for some colonies provided only a generalized “coloured” or “mulatto” category, […] The Trinidad registration returns certainly provide clear examples of mulatto-black couples having cabre children, but […]

#### Coordinate terms

* (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto

### References

* The British Dictionary, in two volumes, illustrated (1933, Odhams Press Limited, London WC2)

### Anagrams

* Brace, acerb, brace, caber

## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* caber, cabre-hi

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin capere, from Proto-Italic *kapiō, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *keh₂p- (“to seize, grab”). Compare Occitan caupre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈka.βɾə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈka.bɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈka.bɾe]
* Homophone: cabra

### Verb

cabre (first-person singular present cabo, first-person singular preterite cabí, past participle cabut)
* to fit, as the possibility to enter or be contained in a given space

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | infinitive | infinitive | cabre | cabre | cabre | cabre | cabre |
| gerund | gerund | gerund | cabent | cabent | cabent | cabent | cabent |
| past participle | past participle | | | masculine | masculine | feminine | feminine |
| past participle | past participle | singular | singular | cabut | cabut | cabuda | cabuda |
| past participle | past participle | plural | plural | cabuts | cabuts | cabudes | cabudes |
| person | person | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| person | person | first | second | third | first | second | third |
| indicative | | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè | nosaltres nós | vosaltres vós | ells/elles vostès |
| indicative | present | cabo | caps | cap | cabem | cabeu | caben |
| indicative | imperfect | cabia | cabies | cabia | cabíem | cabíeu | cabien |
| indicative | future | cabré | cabràs | cabrà | cabrem | cabreu | cabran |
| indicative | preterite | cabí | caberes | cabé | cabérem | cabéreu | caberen |
| indicative | conditional | cabria | cabries | cabria | cabríem | cabríeu | cabrien |
| subjunctive | | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè | nosaltres nós | vosaltres vós | ells/elles vostès |
| subjunctive | present | càpiga | càpigues | càpiga | capiguem | capigueu | càpiguen |
| subjunctive | imperfect | cabés | cabessis | cabés | cabéssim | cabéssiu | cabessin |
| imperative | | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós | vostès |
| imperative | affirmative | — | cap | càpiga | capiguem | cabeu | càpiguen |
| imperative | negative (no) | — | no càpigues | no càpiga | no capiguem | no capigueu | no càpiguen |

### Further reading

* “cabre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “cabre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
* “cabre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “cabre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

### Anagrams

* becar, breca, caber, rabec

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kabʁ/
* Homophones: cabrent, cabres

### Verb

cabre
* inflection of cabrer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* berça, crabe