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cascabel

English edit

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Various cultivars of Capsicum annuum, the cascabel chili pepper.
 
Decorated cascabel (knob at the end of a cannon).

Etymology edit

From Spanish cascabel (“bell, rattle”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cascabel (plural cascabels)

  1. A small, round, hot variety of chili pepper, Capsicum annuum, which rattles when dry.
    • 1984, Jean Andrews, Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums‎[1], published 1995, page 100:
      The very pungent Mexican Cascabel looks a lot like the Cherry pepper when it is growing. […] In the dry state the skin becomes translucent and the seeds are loose so that they rattle, hence cascabel, which means sleigh or jingle bells. Another cultivar, the elongate Catarina, is often called Cascabel because its dry seeds also make a noise within its translucent dry skin.
    • 1997, Didi Emmons, Vegetarian Planet: 350 Big-Flavor Recipes for Out-Of-This-World Food Every Day‎[2], page 415:
      Cascabels are available dried in Latin American markets. Hot and nutty in flavor, cascabels are good in sauces, beans, and chilis.
    • 2004, Rick Greenspan, Hal Kahn, The Leave-No-Crumbs Camping Cookbook‎[3], page 94:
      Prepare the cascabels using one of the methods in the Preparing Cascabels box, at left.
  2. A knob at the end of a cannon, cast onto the gun breech, to which a heavy rope is attached in order to control recoil.
    • 1862, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss, David Ames Wells, William Ripley Nichols, edited by Charles Robert Cross and John Trowbridge, Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art‎[4], page 91:
      The cascabel, instead of being permanently attached to the breech of the piece, is set into it by means of a screw, and thus in reality the bore extends the entire distance of the gun, so that when the cascabel is taken off one can look directly through the gun.
    • 2011, Roy F Sullivan, The Texas Revolution: Tejano Heroes‎[5], page 137:
      This iron cannon with a single muzzle band, without trunnions and with an oversized cascabel is believed by many to be the original “Come and Take It” cannon and is displayed at the Gonzales Memorial Museum and occasionally elsewhere within Texas.
    • 2011, Chris Messner, Cuba Open from the Inside: Travels in the Forbidden Land‎[6]:
      I was looking at a 151 mm caliber cannon, which used the twentyfour pound cannon ball and displayed a beautiful lion′s head on the back end of its breach area. An elaborate cascabel stuck out of the mouth of each animal. The cascabel was primarily used to attach ropes that secured the cannon during the recoil blowback that came from firing.
  3. A bell attached to a sleigh or sleigh harness.

Synonyms edit

  • (pepper): chile bola, bola chile, rattle chile, coban
  • (bell attached to a sleigh): jingle bell

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Noun edit

cascabel m (plural cascabels)

  1. Obsolete spelling of cascabelle

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Galician edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kaskaˈbɛl/ [kɑs̺.kɑˈβ̞ɛɫ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛl
  • Hyphenation: cas‧ca‧bel

Etymology 1 edit

Attested since de 14th century. From Old Occitan cascavel, ultimately from Latin caccabus.[1] Cognate with Portuguese cascavel and Spanish cascabel.

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Noun edit

cascabel m (plural cascabeis)

  1. jingle bell; rattle
    Synonyms: arouxo, axóuxere
    • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 604:
      Et andauã en el trezentos cascauees d'ouro, que desçendí[ã] ata os pees do caualo et ý[ã] fazendo grã rroýdo sobeiament.
      And he [a horse] was wearing three hundred gold jingle bells, that fell till the feet of the horse and were making a large noise, haughtily

Etymology 2 edit

Folk etymology from cascamelo, a diminutive of cálsamo.

Noun edit

cascabel m (plural cascabeis)

  1. common groundsel (Senecio vulgaris)
    Synonyms: calsamiña, cálsamo, casamelo

References edit

  • “cascavel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “cascauees” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “cascabel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “cascabel” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “cascabel” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “cascabel”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kaskaˈbel/ [kas.kaˈβ̞el]
  • Audio (Spain):(file)
  • Rhymes: -el
  • Syllabification: cas‧ca‧bel

Etymology 1 edit

 
Un cascabel de cobre. (A copper jingle bell).

From Old Occitan cascavel, from Vulgar Latin cascābellus (“small bell”), diminutive of cascābus, from Latin cāccabus.

Influenced by Latin quassicāre, based on Latin quassāre (“to shake repeatedly, to quake”), because when the chili is being prepared, the seeds make a rattling noise when the pepper is dried.

Noun edit

cascabel m (plural cascabeles)

  1. jingle bell, sleigh bell
  2. (Chile) rattle (baby's toy)
    Synonyms: sonaja, sonajero
  3. knob of a cannon
  4. cascabel (chili)
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  • → English: cascabel
  • → French: cascabelle

Etymology 2 edit

Short for serpiente de cascabel (“rattlesnake”) or culebra de cascabel (“rattlesnake”).

Noun edit

cascabel f (plural cascabeles)

  1. rattlesnake
    Synonyms: crótalo, serpiente de cascabel, culebra de cascabel
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