# cepo
## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin cēpa. Compare Romanian ceapă, French cive (“chive”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈt͡sepo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -epo
* Hyphenation: ce‧po

### Noun

cepo (accusative singular cepon, plural cepoj, accusative plural cepojn)
* onion

## Galician
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese cepo, from Latin cippus (“post”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈθepo̝/, (western) /ˈsepo̝/

#### Noun

cepo m (plural cepos)
* stump
    Synonyms: carocha, coto, cozo, toco
* trunk section used as support or workbench
* wooden mallet

##### Derived terms

* Cepo

##### Related terms

* cepa

#### References

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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

cepo
* first-person singular present indicative of cepar

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin cippus. Doublet of the borrowed cipo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈse.pu/
* Rhymes: -epu
* Hyphenation: ce‧po

### Noun

cepo m (plural cepos)
* log (trunk of a tree used as timber)
    Synonyms: toro, tora
* (figuratively, derogatory) indolent, stupid or worthless person
* trap used to capture birds, rabbits and other animals
* the part of the plough that penetrates the earth

### Further reading

* “cepo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin cippus (“stake”). Doublet of the borrowed cipo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /ˈθepo/ [ˈθe.po]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsepo/ [ˈse.po]
* Rhymes: -epo
* Syllabification: ce‧po

### Noun

cepo m (plural cepos)
* snare, trap
    Synonym: trampa
* shackle
* clamp (for vehicles etc.)
* branch (of tree)
    Synonym: gajo
* alms box
* (Argentina, economics) Ellipsis of cepo cambiario (“foreign exchange control”).
** 2025 January 14, Ana Clara Pedotti, “Inflación de diciembre: bajaría el ajuste mensual del dólar y la tasa de interés”, in Clarín, page 12:La semana pasada Javier Milei relacionó la marcha del crawling peg con las posibilidades de salir del cepo.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Derived terms

* cepillo
* cepo cambiario

### Further reading

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