capra
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin capra, from its masculine version caper, from Proto-Italic *kapros, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.
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Noun edit
capra f (plural capre, masculine capro)
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From caper (“billy goat, he-goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”); see also Old Norse hafr (“he-goat”), Old English hæfer, Welsh gafr, Old Irish gabor.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.pra/, [ˈkäprä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.pra/, [ˈkäːprä]
Noun edit
capra f (genitive caprae, masculine caper); first declension
- she-goat (a female goat, a nanny goat)
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.443–444:
- stat quoque capra simul [...] īnfantī lac dēdit illa Iovī.
- Also together [with him] stands a she-goat [...] that gave her milk to the infant Jove.
(Ovid refers to mythology about the baby Jupiter/Iuppiter or Zeus having been suckled by a goat, or the goddess Amalthea; see Amalthea (mythology).)
- Also together [with him] stands a she-goat [...] that gave her milk to the infant Jove.
- stat quoque capra simul [...] īnfantī lac dēdit illa Iovī.
- the odor of armpits
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | capra | caprae |
Genitive | caprae | caprārum |
Dative | caprae | caprīs |
Accusative | capram | caprās |
Ablative | caprā | caprīs |
Vocative | capra | caprae |
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References edit
- “capra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “capra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- capra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- capra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “capra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Romanian edit
Noun edit
capra f