jefe
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- chief; president; head; leader of a business, political party, or other organization
- boss; supervisor; manager
- (military ranks) colonel; major; rank between captain and general
- (heraldiccharge) chief
- (video games) boss
- (colloquial) dad, father
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish xefe derived from Old French chief (head, leader) derived from Latin caput (head, etc, source).
Origin
Latin
caput
Gloss
head, etc, source
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
頭
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- capite English
- caput English
- caput Mundi English
- chef English
- chief English
- jefe English
- *accapāre Latin
- *bottia Latin
- *capare Latin
- *capitina Latin
- *capum Latin
- *capāre Latin
- *cuppāre Latin
- *excapitāre Latin
- *excapitō Latin
- Reconstruction:Latin/capum Latin
- baculum Latin
- capa Latin
- capitalis Latin
- capitaneus Latin
- capitatio Latin
- capitatus Latin
- capitellum Latin
- capitergium Latin
- capitia Latin
- capitilavium Latin
- capitium Latin
- capito Latin
- capitulum Latin
- capitānea Latin
- capitāneus Latin
- capitāre Latin
- cappa Latin
- caput Latin
- occiput Latin
- praecipito Latin
- sinciput Latin
- ēricius Latin
- Chef German
- Chefetage German
- Chefideologe German
- Chefin German
- Chefkoch German
- Chefredakteur German
- Chefredakteurin German
- Chefredaktor German
- Chefredaktorin German
- Chefterrorist German
- Chefterroristin German
- Fraktionschef German
- Kap German
- Klubchef German
- Küchenchef German
- Regierungschef German
- Staatschef German
- Vizechef German
- Vorstandschef German
- capa Italian
- caporale Italian
- capriccio Italian
- chef Italian
- chef Dutch, Flemish
- capote French
- chef French
- cheffer French
- derechef French
- sous-chef French
- шеф Russian
- acabar Spanish, Castilian
- capota Spanish, Castilian
- chef Spanish, Castilian
- vicejefe Spanish, Castilian
- *kauput- Proto-Indo-European
- kapp Norwegian Bokmål
- sjef Norwegian Bokmål
- caput Portuguese
- chef Portuguese
- chefe Portuguese
- chefete Portuguese
- chefia Portuguese
- chefiar Portuguese
- chefão Portuguese
- chefículo Portuguese
- chef Swedish
- シェフ Japanese
- szef Polish
- kapp Norwegian Nynorsk
- sjef Norwegian Nynorsk
- cabage, caboche Middle English
- chef Middle English
- chef Danish
- šéf Czech
- caboce Old French
- chanfrain Old French
- chief Old French
- covrechief Old French
- ĉefo Esperanto
- xef Catalan, Valencian
- xefe Galician
- hepe Cebuano
- şef Turkish
- chef Norman
- sếp Vietnamese
- Chef Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- chief Middle French
- שף Hebrew (modern)
- шеф Macedonian
- acabar Occitan
- cabussar Occitan
- cap Occitan
- *kaput Proto-Italic
- acabar Asturian
- xefe Asturian
- xefe Old Spanish
- capa Sicilian
- cifal Volapük
- capitolie xno
- chèf Haitian, Haitian Creole
- şef Crimean Tatar
- şeflik Crimean Tatar
- capa Tarantino