caput

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin caput (“the head”). Doublet of cape, capo, chef, and chief, and distantly of head and Howth. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kəˈpʊt/, /ˈkæp.ət/ Homophone: kaput (for pronunciation with stress on second syllable) === Noun === caput (plural caputs or capita) (anatomy) The head. (anatomy) A knob-like protuberance or capitulum. The top or superior part of a thing. (UK) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856. (medicine, colloquial) Ellipsis of caput succedaneum. ==== Related terms ==== capite caput mortuum capote === Anagrams === act up == Catalan == === Etymology === Borrowed from German kaputt. === Noun === caput m (uncountable) kaput ==== See also ==== fer caput == Latin == === Alternative forms === (part or division of a writing): cap., c. capud capus m (Late Latin) cabo (Late Latin, Salic Law) === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *káput. Cognates include German Haupt and English head. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈka.pʊt] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkaː.put] === Noun === caput n (genitive capitis); third declension The head. (of human and animals) caput hūmānum ― human head (poetic) The head as the seat of the understanding. (transferred sense) (of inanimate things): (in general) The head, top, summit, point, end, extremity (beginning or end). The origin, source, spring (head). (of rivers) (rare, of rivers) The mouth, embouchure. (botany, sometimes) The root. Vine branches. (poetic) (of trees) The summit, top. caput rerum ― the main point of the matter (literature) A man, person, or animal. (figurative): Physical life. Civil or political life. (very frequently) The first or chief person or thing; the head, leader, chief, guide, capital. capita rerum ― the heads of the state affairs (writing) A division, section, paragraph, chapter. Synonym: capitulum (New Latin, anatomy) A headlike protuberance on an organ or body part, usually bone. caput ulnae ― head of the ulna (New Latin, pathology) 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. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== From *capucla, feminine of *capuclum, from *caputulum: From *caputia: === References === Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “caput”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 130 === Further reading === “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), 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 Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “head”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. == Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Latin caput (“the head”). Doublet of cabo, chefe, and chef. === Pronunciation === === Noun === caput m (plural capita)(Brazil, higher register) that which is located above (law) a title or header of a legal article containing its central idea === Further reading === “caput”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “caput”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026