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cascabel

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Various cultivars of Capsicum annuum, the cascabel chili pepper.
 
Decorated cascabel (knob at the end of a cannon).

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    Borrowed from Spanish cascabel (“bell, rattle”).

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    Noun

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    cascabel (plural cascabels)

    1. A small, round, hot variety of chili pepper, Capsicum annuum, which rattles when dry.
      • 1984, Jean Andrews, Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums‎[2], published 1995, page 100:
        The very pungent Mexican Cascabel looks a lot like the Cherry pepper when it is growing. […] In the dry state the skin becomes translucent and the seeds are loose so that they rattle, hence cascabel, which means sleigh or jingle bells. Another cultivar, the elongate Catarina, is often called Cascabel because its dry seeds also make a noise within its translucent dry skin.
      • 1997, Didi Emmons, Vegetarian Planet: 350 Big-Flavor Recipes for Out-Of-This-World Food Every Day‎[3], page 415:
        Cascabels are available dried in Latin American markets. Hot and nutty in flavor, cascabels are good in sauces, beans, and chilis.
      • 2004, Rick Greenspan, Hal Kahn, The Leave-No-Crumbs Camping Cookbook‎[4], page 94:
        Prepare the cascabels using one of the methods in the Preparing Cascabels box, at left.
    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.
      • 1862, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss, David Ames Wells, William Ripley Nichols, edited by Charles Robert Cross and John Trowbridge, Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art‎[5], page 91:
        The cascabel, instead of being permanently attached to the breech of the piece, is set into it by means of a screw, and thus in reality the bore extends the entire distance of the gun, so that when the cascabel is taken off one can look directly through the gun.
      • 2011, Roy F Sullivan, The Texas Revolution: Tejano Heroes‎[6], page 137:
        This iron cannon with a single muzzle band, without trunnions and with an oversized cascabel is believed by many to be the original “Come and Take It” cannon and is displayed at the Gonzales Memorial Museum and occasionally elsewhere within Texas.
      • 2011, Chris Messner, Cuba Open from the Inside: Travels in the Forbidden Land‎[7]:
        I was looking at a 151 mm caliber cannon, which used the twentyfour pound cannon ball and displayed a beautiful lion′s head on the back end of its breach area. An elaborate cascabel stuck out of the mouth of each animal. The cascabel was primarily used to attach ropes that secured the cannon during the recoil blowback that came from firing.
    3. A bell attached to a sleigh or sleigh harness.

    Synonyms

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

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    Noun

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    cascabel m (plural cascabels)

    1. obsolete spelling of cascabelle

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    Galician

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    Pronunciation

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

    Etymology 1

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    Etymology tree
    Ancient Greek κάκκαβος (kákkabos)bor.
    Latin caccabus
    Latin cascabus
    Proto-Indo-European *-lós
    Proto-Indo-European *-elós
    Proto-Italic *-elos
    Latin -lus
    Latin -ellus
    Vulgar Latin *cascabellus
    Old Occitan cascavelbor.
    Old Galician-Portuguese cascavel
    Galician cascabel

      Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cascavel, from Old Occitan cascavel, ultimately from Latin caccabus.[1] Cognate with Portuguese cascavel and Spanish cascabel.

      Alternative forms

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      Noun

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      cascabel m (plural cascabeis)

      1. jingle bell; rattle
        Synonyms: arouxo, axóuxere

      Etymology 2

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      Folk etymology from cascamelo, a diminutive of cálsamo.

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      cascabel m (plural cascabeis)

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

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      1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “cascabel”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

      Spanish

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      Pronunciation

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

      Etymology 1

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      Un cascabel de cobre. (A copper jingle bell).

      From Old Occitan cascavel, from Vulgar Latin cascabellus (“small bell”), diminutive of cascabus, from Latin caccabus.

      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

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      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)
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      Descendants
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      • → English: cascabel
      • → French: cascabelle

      Etymology 2

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

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      cascabel f (plural cascabeles)

      1. rattlesnake
        Synonyms: crótalo, serpiente de cascabel, culebra de cascabel
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