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8-letter words (2 found)

CASCABEL,CASCABLE,

7-letter words (1 found)

ACCABLE,

6-letter words (8 found)

BACCAE,BACCAS,CABALS,CABLES,CAECAL,CALCES,CALESA,SCALAE,

5-letter words (28 found)

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4-letter words (48 found)

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3-letter words (34 found)

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2-letter words (11 found)

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1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 133 words from cascabel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cascabel

cascabel

Etymology

From Spanish cascabel (“bell, rattle”).

Pronunciation

  • (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkæskəbɛl/
  • Hyphenation: cas‧ca‧bel

Noun

cascabel (plural cascabels)

  1. A small, round, hot variety of chili pepper, Capsicum annuum, which rattles when dry.
  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.
  3. A bell attached to a sleigh or sleigh harness.

Synonyms

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

Translations

Anagrams

  • accables, cascable

French

Noun

cascabel m (plural cascabels)

  1. Obsolete spelling of cascabelle

Further reading

  • “cascabèle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

  • cascavel (Reintegrationist)

Noun

cascabel m (plural cascabeis)

  1. jingle bell; rattle
    Synonyms: arouxo, axóuxere

Etymology 2

Folk etymology from cascamelo, a diminutive of cálsamo.

Noun

cascabel m (plural cascabeis)

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

References

  • “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.

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

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)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
  • → English: cascabel
  • → French: cascabelle

Etymology 2

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

Noun

cascabel f (plural cascabeles)

  1. rattlesnake
    Synonyms: crótalo, serpiente de cascabel, culebra de cascabel
Descendants
  • → French: cascabelle

Further reading

  • “cascabel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org