caber
Spanish
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to fit, enter to be able to be contained (by something, regardless of whether space or volume remains)
- (transitive) to traverse, pass through or across a way, path, door, hole, opening, mouth, orifice, etc.
- (transitive) to be held or contained to be held inside (something) or passed through (regardless of whether space or volume remains)
- (transitive) to have, hold, should be in certain phrases
- (transitive) to be acceptable, accepted, permitted, permissible, allowable, etc.
- (archaic) to take
- (archaic) to understand
- to be possible
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish caber inherited from Latin capere (capture, seize, take) inherited from Proto-Italic *kapiō inherited from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kh₂pyéti
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aerocapture English
- capturability English
- capturable English
- capture English
- captureless English
- capturer English
- capturest English
- captureth English
- encapture English
- glycocapture English
- immunocapture English
- multicapture English
- oligocapture English
- photocapture English
- piscicapture English
- postcapture English
- recapture English
- uncapture English
- *capīre Latin
- capere Latin
- capio Latin
- capio, capere Latin
- capulum Latin
- cabida Spanish, Castilian
- *keh₂p- Proto-Indo-European
- *kh₂pyéti Proto-Indo-European
- caber Portuguese
- cabível Portuguese
- *habjaną Proto-Germanic
- cabre Catalan, Valencian
- încăpea Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- capture Middle French
- caber Old Portuguese
- caber Occitan
- caupre Occitan
- *kapiō Proto-Italic
- caber Old Spanish