Cape Verde

Partial calque of Portuguese Cabo Verde, from cabo (“cape”) + verde (“green”).

• IPA^(key): /keɪp ˈvɝd/, /keɪp ˈvɝdi/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d

Cape Verde

1. An archipelago and country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Cabo Verde.
   • 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Southern Hemisphere”, in Seize the Moment‎, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 250:

     In the Cape Verde Islands, the electoral victory of Movement for Democracy ushered out sixteen years of one-party rule.

In October 2013, the government requested that the country be known as Cabo Verde in every language, rather than by partial translations (Cape Verde, Kaap Verde, etc) as had previously been the case. Cabo Verde had already seen some use in English, but continues to be less common than Cape Verde.[1]

• Cabo Verde

• Macaronesia
• Subsahara

• Cape Verdean

• Praia
• Appendix:Countries of the world