different between capo vs capot

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæ.p??/, /?ke?.pou/

Etymology 1

Shortening of capotasto, from Italian.

Noun

capo (plural capos)

1. A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.

Synonyms

• (movable bar): capotasto

Translations

Etymology 2

From Italian capo (“head”).

Noun

capo (plural capos or capi)

1. A leader in the Mafia; a caporegime.
2. A leader and organizer of supporters at a sporting event, particularly association football matches.

Translations

Anagrams

• ACPO, APCO, CoAP, Copa, OPAC, Paco, acop, paco

Catalan

Verb

capo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of capar

Istriot

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.

Noun

capo m

1. head
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:

     Nun o’ pioün veîsto el pioûn biel capo biondo.

     I haven’t seen a more beautiful blonde head.

Synonyms

• tiesta

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-. Doublet of chef.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.po/
• Hyphenation: cà?po

Noun

capo m (plural capi)

1. head

   Synonym: testa

2. boss, chief, leader, master
3. end (of a rope etc)

   Synonyms: fine, estremità

4. cape (especially when capitalised in placenames)
5. ply
6. buddy
7. (heraldry) chief

Adjective

capo (invariable)

1. head, chief, leading

Related terms

Descendants

• ? English: capo
• ? Spanish: capo

Anagrams

• paco, pacò
• poca

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- or *(s)kap- (“to hew, cut, shovel”), from a PIE substrate word that also gave Latin scapulae - see Ancient Greek ????? (kópt?), Ancient Greek ?????? (skápt?) for further cognates and discussion, as well as Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Alternatively, from another substrate word that also gave Latin caper. In both cases the vocalism requires postulating a substrate origin.

Alternative forms

• c?pus (archaic)
• *capp? (reconstructed)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka?.po?/, [?kä?po?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.po/, [?k??p?]

Noun

c?p? m (genitive c?p?nis); third declension

1. a capon (castrated cockerel)
2. (in general) a rooster

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “c?pus; scapulae”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN

Further reading

• capo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• capo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -apu

Verb

capo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of capar

Spanish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian capo (“head”). Related to cabo.

Noun

capo m (plural capos)

1. gangster
2. by extension, a very able person at doing something
3. boss, chief

Etymology 2

See capar

Verb

capo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of capar.

English

Etymology

English [Term?]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??p?t/, /k??p??/

Noun

capot (plural capots)

1. (card games) A winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points.
   • 1744, Edmond Hoyle, A Short Treatise on the Game of Piquet

     There are three chances in this game, viz., the repique, pique, and capot […] The Capot is , when either of the Players make every Trick , for which he is to count forty ; instead of which he counts but ten , when he only gets the Majority of the Tricks, which is called , the Cards

Verb

capot (third-person singular simple present capots, present participle capotting or capoting, simple past and past participle capotted or capoted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To win all the tricks (from), when playing at piquet.

   • “Capot me if I think that was according to the rules of the game,” said his confident ; “ and pray , what answer did you return ?”

References

capot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• coapt

French

Etymology

From Old French capote (“hooded cloak”), diminutive of cape, from Late Latin cappa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.po/

Noun

capot m (plural capots)

1. bonnet (UK), hood (US)

Descendants

• ? Catalan: capó
• ? Gulf Arabic: ????? (kabb?t)
• ? Hijazi Arabic: ???????? (kabb?t)
• ? Portuguese: capô
• ? Spanish: capó
• ? Luxembourgish: Capot

See also

• capote

Further reading

• “capot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).