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cabido

Portuguese, noun/kaˈbi.du/

cabido is spelled C-A-B-I-D-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 59,000th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cabido is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “chapter (a council or community of canons)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of caber. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “corporação dos cônegos de uma catedral”.

What does cabido mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinechapter (a council or community of canons)

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of caber

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. que tem cabimento, aceitação ou valia 2. merecido

noun: 1. corporação dos cônegos de uma catedral

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of cabido

  • cabidos plural
  • cabida feminine
  • cabidas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce cabido?

  • Brazil /kaˈbi.du/
  • Portugal /kɐˈbi.du/
  • Portugal [kɐˈβi.ðu]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is cabido in Portuguese?

cabido appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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