capo
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Shortening of capotasto, from Italian.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
capo (plural capos)
- A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.
Synonyms edit
- (movable bar): capotasto
Translations edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Italian capo (“head, chief”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- A leader in the Mafia; a caporegime.
- A leader and organizer of supporters at a sporting event, particularly association football matches.
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Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
capo (plural capos)
- Alternative spelling of kapo
- 2004, Gedenkstätte Buchenwald, Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1937-1945: A Guide to the Permanent Historical Exhibition, Wallstein Verlag, →ISBN, page 118:
- […] the capo in a sub-camp in 1940. As a foreman and capo in the quarry he earned the reputation of treating Jewish […]
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
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capo
Galician edit
Verb edit
capo
Istriot edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin capus m < Latin caput n. On account of the unlenited /-p-/, presumably borrowed via Italian capo.
Noun edit
capo m
- 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 edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *káput. Doublet of chef.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
capo m (plural capi)
- head
- Synonym: testa
- boss, chief, leader, master
- end (of a rope etc.)
- (geography) cape (especially when capitalised/capitalized in placenames)
- ply
- buddy
- (heraldry) chief
Adjective edit
capo (invariable)
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Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
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 κόπτω (kóptō), Ancient Greek σκάπτω (skáptō) 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.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkaː.poː/, [ˈkäːpoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.po/, [ˈkäːpo]
Noun edit
cāpō m (genitive cāpōnis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cāpō | cāpōnēs |
Genitive | cāpōnis | cāpōnum |
Dative | cāpōnī | cāpōnibus |
Accusative | cāpōnem | cāpōnēs |
Ablative | cāpōne | cāpōnibus |
Vocative | cāpō | cāpōnēs |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: capó
- Friulian: cjapon
- → Greek: καπόνι (kapóni)
- Italian: cappone
- → Middle Dutch: capoen
- Dutch: kapoen
- Occitan: capon
- → Old English: capūn
- Old French: chapon
- → Old High German: chappo
- Old Galician-Portuguese: capon
- Romanian: clapon
- Sardinian: caboni
- Sicilian: capuni
- Spanish: capón
- Venetian: capón
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References edit
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cāpus; scapulae”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Further reading edit
- “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 edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -apu
Verb edit
capo
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Italian capo (“head”). Related to cabo.
Noun edit
capo m (plural capos)
- gangster
- by extension, a very able person at doing something
- boss, chief
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
capo
Further reading edit
- “capo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014