cabdiello

• capdiello

From Late Latin capitellum (“small head”), diminutive of Latin capitulum, from caput (“head”).

• IPA^(key): /kabˈdjeʎo/

cabdiello m (plural cabdiellos)

1. a military chief or leader
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 30r. col. 2:

     E dixierõ q ſubra / de lãte nos por cabdiello enla / batalla. Dixo nŕo ſẽnor iuda / ſubra caẏo dare la tŕa en ſu / mano.

     [E dixieron: “Qui subrá delante nos por cabdiello en la batalla?” Dixo nuestro señor: “Juda subrá, ca yo daré la tierra en su mano.”]

     And they said: “Who will rise up before us as our leader in battle?” Our Lord said: “Judah will rise up, for I shall deliver the land into his hand.”

• cabdal
• cabeça

• Spanish: caudillo, cabdillo (obsolete)
  • → Catalan: cabdill (from obsolete form cabdillo)
  • → English: caudillo
  • → French: caudillo
  • → Portuguese: caudilho
  • → Russian: кауди́льо (kaudílʹo)