different between kapo vs capo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kapo, from Italian capo.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Wikipedia says this ety is uncertain and suggests several others.”)

Noun

kapo (plural kapos)

1. (historical) A prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was given food and privileges in return for supervising other prisoners doing forced labor.

Translations

Anagrams

• poak

Burushaski

Noun

kapo

1. cuckoo

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Latin caput and Italian capo.

Noun

kapo (accusative singular kapon, plural kapoj, accusative plural kapojn)

1. head
   • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, "Proverbaro Esperanta":

     Kiom da kapoj, tiom da opinioj.

     However many heads, that many opinions.

Derived terms

• skeletkapo

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ????? (káppa, “the letter ?”).

Noun

kapo (accusative singular kapon, plural kapoj, accusative plural kapojn)

1. kappa

Finnish

Alternative forms

• capo

Noun

kapo

1. (music) capotasto, capo

Declension

Anagrams

• pako, poka

French

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kapo, from Italian capo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.po/

Noun

kapo m (plural kapos)

1. (historical) kapo

Further reading

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

Ido

Noun

kapo (plural kapi)

1. head

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.p?/

Etymology 1

From German Kapo, from Italian capo, from Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-.

Noun

kapo m pers (indeclinable) or kapo f (indeclinable)

1. (historical) kapo (male or female)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

kapo

1. vocative singular of kapa

Further reading

• kapo in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• kapo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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.