cascavel

cascavel (plural cascavels)

1. Alternative spelling of cascabel (“a type of bell”).

Borrowed from Old Occitan cascavel.

*cascavel m (plural cascavees)

1. (music) jingle bell
   • 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, chapter 372, in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], Kingdom of Galicia, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (in Old French), →OCLC, manuscript MSS/10233, page 146v:

     Et andauã en el trezentos caſcauẽes douro q̃ deſçendia ata os pẽes do caualo. ⁊ ẏa fazendo grã rroẏdo ſobeiam̃t.

     [Et andavan en el trezentos cascavees d'ouro que descendia[n] ata os pees do cavalo. Et ia[n] fazendo gran roido sobeiamente.]

     And it [the horse] was wearing three hundred gold jingle bells, that fell till the feet of the horse and were making a large noise, haughtily.

Only attested in the plural.

• Fala: cascabel
• Galician: cascabel
• Portuguese: cascavel

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cascaue”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “cascavel”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cascavel”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cascābellus (“small bell”), from cascabus.

cascavel m (oblique plural cascavels, nominative singular cascavels, nominative plural cascavel)

1. (music) jingle bell

• Occitan: cascavel
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: cascavel
  • Fala: cascabel
  • Galician: cascabel
  • Portuguese: cascavel
• → Old Spanish: cascabel

• “cascavęl”, in Dictionnaire de l’occitan médiéval en ligne (in German and French), Munich: LMU, 2013–2026
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “cascavel”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 455

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cascavel, from Old Occitan cascavel, from Vulgar Latin *cascābellus (“small bell”), from cascabus.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛw, (Portugal) -ɛl
• Homophone: Cascavel
• Hyphenation: cas‧ca‧vel

cascavel f (plural cascavéis)

1. rattlesnake

   Synonyms: cobra-cascavel, (Brazil) boicininga

2. (zootomy) rattle (set of rings at the end of a rattlesnake's tail)

   Synonym: chocalho

cascavel m (plural cascavéis)

1. (music) jingle bell

   Synonym: guizo

• “cascavel”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cascavel”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “cascavel”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “cascavel”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN