capitulate

See also: capitoulate

English

WOTD – 9 April 2007

Etymology

From the participle stem of Medieval Latin capitulare (“draw up under headings”), from Latin capitulum (“heading, chapter, title”), diminutive of caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈpɪ.tjʊ.leɪt/, /kəˈpɪ.t͡ʃə.leɪt/
(US) IPA^(key): /kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jʊ.leɪt/, /kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jə.leɪt/
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Verb

capitulate (third-person singular simple present capitulates, present participle capitulating, simple past and past participle capitulated)

(intransitive) To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
Antonyms: see Thesaurus:defeat

He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 14, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
  The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated.
(transitive, obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
(transitive, obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
- 1661, Peter Heylin, Ecclesia restaurata:
  there capitulates with the king […] to take to wife his daughter Mary

Synonyms

(surrender, end resistance, give up): wave the white flag

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

surrender; end all resistance; to give up; to go along with or comply

Albanian: kapitulloj (sq)
Arabic: اِسْتَسْلَمَ (istaslama)
Armenian: անձնատուր լինել (hy) (anjnatur linel), հանձնվել (hy) (hanjnvel)
Azerbaijani: təslim olmaq
Belarusian: капітулява́ць impf or pf (kapituljavácʹ), здава́цца impf (zdavácca), зда́цца pf (zdácca)
Bulgarian: капитули́рам (bg) impf or pf (kapitulíram), преда́вам се (bg) impf (predávam se), преда́м се pf (predám se)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 投降 (zh) (tóuxiáng) (to surrender), 屈從／屈从 (zh) (qūcóng) (to submit/yield), 放棄／放弃 (zh) (fàngqì) (to give up)
Czech: kapitulovat (cs) impf or pf, vzdávat se impf, vzdát se (cs) pf
Danish: kapitulere, overgive sig
Dutch: capituleren (nl), zich overgeven (nl)
Esperanto: kapitulaci (eo)
Estonian: kapituleeruma
Finnish: antautua (fi), luovuttaa (fi), antaa periksi (fi)
French: capituler (fr), se rendre (fr)
Georgian: დანებება (danebeba)
German: kapitulieren (de), sich ergeben (de)
Greek: παραδίδομαι (el) (paradídomai), συνθηκολογώ (el) (synthikologó)
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: megadja magát, kapitulál (hu)
Italian: capitolare (it), arrendersi (it)
Japanese: 降伏する (ja) (こうふくする, kōfuku suru)
Kazakh: берілу (berılu), бағыну (bağynu)
Korean: 항복하다 (ko) (hangbokhada)
Kyrgyz: багынуу (ky) (bagınuu)
Latvian: kapitulēt
Lithuanian: kapituliuoti
Macedonian: капитули́ра impf or pf (kapitulíra), се предава impf (se predava), се предаде pf (se predade)
Maori: hauraro, whakahauraro
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kapitulere, overgi seg
Persian: تسلیم شدن (fa) (taslim šodan)
Polish: kapitulować (pl) impf, skapitulować (pl) pf, poddawać się (pl) impf, poddać się (pl) pf
Portuguese: capitular (pt)
Romanian: capitula (ro)
Russian: капитули́ровать (ru) impf or pf (kapitulírovatʹ), сдава́ться (ru) impf (sdavátʹsja), сда́ться (ru) pf (sdátʹsja)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: капитули́рати impf or pf, преда́вати се impf, прѐдати се pf

Roman: kapitulírati (sh) impf or pf, predávati se (sh) impf, prèdati se (sh) pf
Slovak: kapitulovať impf or pf, vzdávať sa impf, vzdať se pf
Slovene: kapitulirati impf or pf, predajati se impf, predati se pf
Spanish: capitular (es), rendirse (es)
Swedish: kapitulera (sv), ge upp (sv), resignera (sv)
Tajik: таслим шудан (taslim šudan)
Thai: ยอมแพ้ (yɔɔm-pɛ́ɛ)
Turkish: teslim olmak (tr)
Ukrainian: капітулюва́ти impf or pf (kapituljuváty), здава́тися (uk) impf (zdavátysja), зда́тися pf (zdátysja)
Uzbek: taslim boʻlmoq
Vietnamese: đầu hàng (vi)

Spanish

Verb

capitulate

second-person singular voseo imperative of capitular combined with te