CAPUT

Caput

The Latin word caput, meaning literally "head" and by metonymy "top", has been borrowed in a variety of English words, including capital, captain, and decapitate. The name "Caputo", common in the Campania region of Italy, comes from the appellation used by some Roman military generals, and a variant form has surfaced more recently in the title Capo, the head of La Cosa Nostra. The French language converted caput into chief, chef, and chapitre, later borrowed in English as chapter.

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caput

Noun

  1. The head.
  2. A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.
  3. The top or superior part of a thing.
  4. The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.


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