capitaneus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
- From caput (“head”) + -āneus.
- Later absorbed and merged with similar catepanus, capetanus, and other Vulgar Latin renderings of katepano, the senior rank and title of Byzantine military captains of the Catepanate of Italy, from Byzantine Greek κατεπάνω (katepánō, literally “[the one] placed at the top, or the topmost”)
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ka.piˈtaː.ne.us/, [käpɪˈt̪äːneʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka.piˈta.ne.us/, [käpiˈt̪äːneus]
Adjective edit
capitāneus (feminine capitānea, neuter capitāneum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | capitāneus | capitānea | capitāneum | capitāneī | capitāneae | capitānea | |
Genitive | capitāneī | capitāneae | capitāneī | capitāneōrum | capitāneārum | capitāneōrum | |
Dative | capitāneō | capitāneō | capitāneīs | ||||
Accusative | capitāneum | capitāneam | capitāneum | capitāneōs | capitāneās | capitānea | |
Ablative | capitāneō | capitāneā | capitāneō | capitāneīs | |||
Vocative | capitānee | capitānea | capitāneum | capitāneī | capitāneae | capitānea |
Descendants edit
- Ligurian: capitan
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Old French: chevetaine
- Venetian: capetanio, capitan
- → Greek: καπετάνιος (kapetánios)
- → Ottoman Turkish: كاپتان
Via capitānea f:
- Italian: capitagna
Via capitāneum n:
- Aromanian: cãpitãnj, cãpitãnjiu, cãpitinj, cãpitinjiu, cãpitunj, cãpitunjiu
- Romanian: căpătâi
- Borrowings
- → Old French: capitaine
- → Catalan: capità
- → Occitan: capitani
- → Polish: kapitan
- → Russian: капитан (kapitan) (see there for further descendants)
- → Spanish: capitán
- → English: capitan
- → Tagalog: kapitan
- → Ye'kwana: kajichaana
- → English: capitan
Unsorted borrowings
- → Arabic: قبطان (qubṭān)
- → Belarusian: капітан (kapitan)
- → Bulgarian: капитан (kapitan)
- → Crimean Tatar: kapitan
- → Georgian: კაპიტანი (ḳaṗiṭani)
- → Hebrew: קפטן (kepten)
- → Hijazi Arabic: قبطان (gubṭān)
- → Hungarian: kapitány
- → Icelandic: kapteinn
- → Latvian: kapteinis
- → Macedonian: капетан (kapetan)
- → Malayalam: കപ്പിത്താന് (kappittānŭ)
- → Maltese: kaptan
- → Persian: کاپیتان (kâpitân)
- → Scottish Gaelic: caiptean
- → Serbo-Croatian: капетан / kapetan
- → Slovak: kapitán
- → Slovene: kapetan
- → Welsh: capten
- → Yiddish: קאַפּיטאַן (kapitan)
Noun edit
capitāneus m (genitive capitāneī, feminine capitānea); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | capitāneus | capitāneī |
Genitive | capitāneī | capitāneōrum |
Dative | capitāneō | capitāneīs |
Accusative | capitāneum | capitāneōs |
Ablative | capitāneō | capitāneīs |
Vocative | capitānee | capitāneī |
References edit
- “capitaneus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- capitaneus 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)
- capitaneus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- ^ Salmon Claudine. Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges. In: Archipel, volume 78, 2009. pp. 181-208