capitaneus

== Latin == === Etymology === From caput (“head”) +‎ -āneus. Compare typologically Russian глава́ (glavá), глава́рь (glavárʹ), голова́ (golová). Later absorbed and merged with similar catepanus, capetanus, and other Vulgar Latin renderings of catepan, the senior rank and title of Byzantine military captains of the Catepanate of Italy, from Byzantine Greek κατεπάνω (katepánō, literally “[the one] placed at the top, or the topmost”) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ka.pɪˈtaː.ne.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ka.piˈtaː.ne.us] === Adjective === capitāneus (feminine capitānea, neuter capitāneum); first/second-declension adjective large, chief in size capital (of letters) ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === Noun === capitāneus m (genitive capitāneī, feminine capitānea); second declension captain, commander governor, commandant civic official, prefect tribal chieftain, chief ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “capitaneus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "capitaneus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “capitaneus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.