Wiktionary

capa

See also: Capa, CAPA, càpa, cápa, capá, capà, capã, capă, çapa, and сара

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Spanish capa. Doublet of cape and cappa.

NounEdit

capa (countable and uncountable, plural capas)

  1. (countable) A Spanish cloak.
  2. (uncountable) Fine Cuban tobacco for the outsides of cigars.

AnagramsEdit

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Late Latin cappa. Compare Occitan capa.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

capa f (plural capes)

  1. layer
    Al Photoshop s'usen diferents capes per tractar la imatge.
    In Photoshop different layers are used to work with images.
    La capa d'ozó està en perill.
    The ozone layer is endangered.
  2. film, skin (layer that forms on the top of certain liquids)
    Synonym: tel
  3. coat (of paint)
    Synonym: mà
  4. cape
    El duc portava una capa molt maca.
    The duke was wearing a very beautiful cape.

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms
  • aguantar la capa (hold the cape) = to be with a couple, disturbing them in flirting
  • anar de capa caiguda (to go with fallen cape) = to have a bad season
  • capejar
  • capirot
  • caperó
  • de capa i espasa (about cape and sword) = a fictional genre about wars, cavalry and old times

Related termsEdit

Further readingEdit

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

capa

  1. third-person singular past historic of caper

GalicianEdit

 
Galician traditional mill

EtymologyEdit

From Old Galician-Portuguese capa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin cappa. Cognate with Portuguese capa and Spanish capa.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

capa f (plural capas)

  1. cloak, cape
  2. runner stone (upper, mobile millstone)
  3. each one of the flagstones which tops a wall
  4. layer
    Ese ten máis capas que unha cebola. ― That guy has more layers than an onion.

Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • “capa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “capa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “capa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “capa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “capa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From a southern dialectal form of capo (“head”), from Latin caput. Compare Neapolitan, Sicilian, Tarantino capa.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.pa/
  • Rhymes: -apa
  • Hyphenation: cà‧pa

NounEdit

capa f (plural cape)

  1. head
    Synonyms: capo, testa

NounEdit

capa f (plural cape)

  1. (often humorous) female equivalent of capo (“boss”)
  2. Alternative form of kappa

AnagramsEdit

LatinEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From earlier (Late Latin) cappa.

NounEdit

capa m (genitive capae); first declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) a cape

DeclensionEdit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative capa capae
Genitive capae capārum
Dative capae capīs
Accusative capam capās
Ablative capā capīs
Vocative capa capae

ReferencesEdit

MalayEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: ca‧pa

NounEdit

capa (Jawi spelling چاڤ‎, plural capa-capa, informal 1st possessive capaku, 2nd possessive capamu, 3rd possessive capanya)

  1. Ngai camphor (Blumea balsamifera)
    Synonyms: capu, capur, sambung, sembong, telinga kerbau

Further readingEdit

NeapolitanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin caput.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

capa f (plural cape)

  1. head (the part of the body containing the brain)
    Teneva nu cappiello janco ncapa.
    They were wearing a white hat on their head.

PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sa.pa/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -apa
  • Syllabification: ca‧pa

NounEdit

capa m anim

  1. genitive/accusative singular of cap

PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -apɐ
  • Hyphenation: ca‧pa

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese capa, from Late Latin cappa.

NounEdit

capa f (plural capas)

  1. cloak; cape (long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back)
  2. (printing) cover (front and back of a book or magazine)
  3. the front cover or front page of a publication
  4. jacket (protective or insulating cover for an object)
  5. (bullfighting) cape (cloth used by a bullfighter to trick the bull)
  6. (figurative) cloak (a false pretext or appearance)
  7. (geology) a top layer of rock
  8. wrapper (outer layer of a cigar)
  9. (colloquial) condom
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • Japanese: 合羽
  • Kadiwéu: caapa

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from Late Latin cappa, from Ancient Greek κάππα (káppa), from Phoenician 𐤊𐤐‎ (kp /kaph/), from Proto-Semitic *kapp- (“palm, hand”).

NounEdit

capa m (plural capas)

  1. (Portugal) kay (name of the Latin letter K, k)
    Synonym: (Brazil) cá
  2. kappa (name of the Greek letter Κ, κ)

Etymology 3Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

capa

  1. inflection of capar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

SicilianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From older capu, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkapa/
  • Hyphenation: ca‧pa

NounEdit

capa f (plural capi)

  1. (anatomy) head

SpanishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Inherited from Old Spanish capa, from Late Latin cappa. Cognate with English cape and cope (“priestly vestment”). Compare English coping (“top layer of a brick wall”) for an English comparable semantic sense of a "layer".

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkapa/ [ˈka.pa]
  • Rhymes: -apa
  • Syllabification: ca‧pa

NounEdit

capa f (plural capas)

  1. cloak, cape (a sleeveless garment hanging from the neck)
  2. coat, sheet (a covering of material, such as paint)
  3. layer (a single thickness of some material covering a surface)
  4. guise; pretext
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

capa

  1. inflection of capar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further readingEdit

TarantinoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin caput. Compare Neapolitan and Sicilian capa.

NounEdit

capa

  1. head
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