cabildo
noun
ca·bil·do
kəˈbil(ˌ)dō
plural -s
1
chiefly Southwest : the chapter house of a cathedral or collegiate church
2
: a town council or a town hall in a country formerly a Spanish colony
Word History
Etymology
Spanish, from Medieval Latin capitulum, from Latin, small head
First Known Use
1803, in the meaning defined at sense 2