different between fingerboard vs capo

English

Etymology

finger +? board

Noun

fingerboard (plural fingerboards)

1. (music, lutherie) A flat or roughly flat strip on the neck of a stringed instrument, against which the strings are pressed to shorten the vibrating length and produce notes of higher pitches.
2. A miniature skateboard that is driven with the fingers.

Translations

References

• The Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• board finger

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.