capra

See also: Capra, capră, and caprã

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin capra.

NounEdit

capra f (plural capre, masculine capro)

1. goat (mammal)
2. nanny goat
3. trestle

Related termsEdit

Related terms

• capretta
• caprettina
• caprice

• capricorn
• caprino
• capro

• caprone
• formaggio di capra
• latte di capra

See alsoEdit

• becco

AnagramsEdit

• carpa
• parca

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From caper (“billy goat, he-goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”); see also Old Norse hafr (“he-goat”), Old English hæfr, Welsh gafr, Old Irish gabor.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pra/

NounEdit

capra f (genitive caprae); first declension

1. a she-goat
2. the odor of armpits
3. vocative singular of capra

caprā f

1. ablative singular of capra

InflectionEdit

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	capra	caprae
genitive	caprae	caprārum
dative	caprae	caprīs
accusative	capram	caprās
ablative	caprā	caprīs
vocative	capra	caprae

Derived termsEdit

• caprio
• caprīnus
• caprārius

DescendantsEdit

• Aragonese: craba, crapa
• Aromanian: caprã
• Asturian: cabra
• Catalan: cabra
• Franco-Provençal: chiévra
• French: chèvre
• Friulian: cjavre
• Galician: cabra
• Istriot: càvara
• Italian: capra
• Neapolitan: crapa

• Occitan: cabra, chabra, craba
  • Franco-Provençal: cabra
• Portuguese: cabra
• Romanian: capră
• Romansch: chaura, caura, tgora, chevra
• Sardinian: craba
• Sicilian: crapa
• Spanish: cabra
• Translingual: Capra
• Venetian: cavra, càora, càvara
• Walloon: tchive

See alsoEdit

• capella
• caper
• caprea

ReferencesEdit

• 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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “capra”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “capra” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• capra in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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RomanianEdit

NounEdit

capra f

1. definite singular nominative and accusative form of capră.