cabe
caber
- (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))
- (intransitive, transitive) to have, hold, should be (in certain phrases)
- (figuratively, transitive) to be acceptable, accepted, permitted, permissible, allowable, etc.
- (archaic) to take
- (archaic) to understand
- to be possible
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ca‧be
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkabe/
Etymology
A contraction of a cabo de; a deriving from Latin ad, cabo from Latin caput, and de from Latin de.
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