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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caput (“the head”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæp.?t/

Noun

caput (plural caputs or capita)

1. (anatomy) The head.
2. (anatomy) A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.
3. The top or superior part of a thing.
4. (Britain) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
5. (medicine, colloquial) Ellipsis of caput succedaneum.

Related terms

• capite
• caput mortuum

Anagrams

• act up

Catalan

Etymology

From German kaputt, from Yiddish ???????? (kaput, “lost, dead”).

Noun

caput m (uncountable)

1. kaput

See also

• fer caput

Latin

Alternative forms

• (part or division of a writing): cap., c.

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *káput-. Cognates include German Haupt and English head.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.put/, [?käp?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.put/, [?k??put?]

Noun

caput n (genitive capitis); third declension

1. (of human and animals) The head.
   1. (poetic) The head as the seat of the understanding.
2. (transferred sense) (of inanimate things):
   1. (in general) The head, top, summit, point, end, extremity (beginning or end).
   2. (of rivers) The origin, source, spring (head).
   3. (rare) (of rivers) The mouth, embouchure.
   4. (botany, sometimes) The root.
   5. Vine branches.
   6. (poetic) (of trees) The summit, top.
3. (literature) A man, person, or animal.
4. (figuratively):
   1. Physical life.
   2. Civil or political life.
   3. (very frequently) The first or chief person or thing; the head, leader, chief, guide, capital.
5. (writing) A division, section, paragraph, chapter.

   Synonym: capitulum

6. (New Latin, anatomy) A headlike protuberance on an organ or body part, usually bone.

7. (New Latin, medicine) A disease; a severe swelling of the soft tissues of a newborn's scalp that develops as the baby travels through the birth canal.

Usage notes

Caput can be used with either a genitive or a dative in the sense of a capital city.

Inflection

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

See also descendants at capita.

• Sardinian: kabude, kabudu, kabide
• ? Vulgar Latin: capus (see there for further descendants)
• ? English: caput
• ? Portuguese: caput

References

• caput in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caput in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caput in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• caput in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• caput in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caput in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• caput in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “head”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) , “caput”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 130

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caput (“the head”). Doublet of cabo, chefe, and chef.

Noun

caput m (plural caputs)

1. that which is located above
2. (law) a title or header of a legal article containing its central idea