capitale
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
capitale f (plural capitales)
- capital, capital city
- capital letter
Derived terms edit
Adjective edit
capitale
Further reading edit
- “capitale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin capitālis, derived from caput (“head”).
Adjective edit
capitale (plural capitali)
- (relational) head
- primary, prime, chief, main, capital
- Synonyms: essenziale, fondamentale, primario, vitale
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun use of the above adjective.
Noun edit
capitale f (plural capitali)
- capital city, capital
- la Capitale ― the Capital (= Rome)
Noun edit
capitale m (plural capitali)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Dutch: kapitaal
- → Indonesian: kapital
- → German: Kapital, Capital
- → Yiddish: קאַפּיטאַל (kapital)
- → Piedmontese: capital
Further reading edit
- capitale1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- capitale2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- capitale3 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
A nominalised form from capitālis.
Noun edit
capitāle n (genitive capitālis); third declension
- (Late Latin) capital crime
- (Late Latin) pillow
- (Medieval Latin, finance) capital (money)
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | capitāle | capitālia |
Genitive | capitālis | capitālium |
Dative | capitālī | capitālibus |
Accusative | capitāle | capitālia |
Ablative | capitālī | capitālibus |
Vocative | capitāle | capitālia |
Adjective edit
capitāle
References edit
- “capitale”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- capitale 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)
Romanian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
capitale f
- inflection of capitală: