alcaucil
Spanish
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editEtymology
editFrom Andalusian Arabic الْقَبْسِيل (al-qabsīl), from a Medieval Latin form *capicella for capitia, from Latin caput (“head”). Doublet of jefe and cabo.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Spain) /alkauˈθil/ [al.kau̯ˈθil]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /alkauˈsil/ [al.kau̯ˈsil]
- Rhymes: -il
- Syllabification: al‧cau‧cil
Noun
editalcaucil m (plural alcauciles)
References
edit- Corriente, Federico (2008) “alcaucil”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 81
Further reading
edit- “alcaucil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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