cascabel

Meaning

  1. (masculine) jingle bell, sleigh bell
  2. (Chile, masculine) rattle (baby's toy)
  3. (masculine) knob of a cannon
  4. (masculine) cascabel (chili)

Concepts

little bell

poner el cascabel al gato

see de cascabel gordo

Synonyms

campanilla esférica

shacapas

víbora-cascabel

víbora de cascabel

Frequency

20k
Hyphenated as
cas‧ca‧bel
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kaskaˈbel/
Etymology

In summary

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.

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