capra

See also: Capra, capră, and caprã

Italian

Etymology

From Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.

Noun

capra f (plural capre, masculine capro)

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

Related terms

• capraio
• caprareccia
• capretta
• caprettina
• caprice
• capricorn
• caprino
• capriolo
• capro
• caprone
• formaggio di capra
• latte di capra

 

See also

• becco

Anagrams

• carpa
• parca

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Latin

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pra/, [ˈkäpɾä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pra/, [ˈkɑːpɾɑ]

Noun

capra f (genitive caprae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	capra	caprae
Genitive	caprae	caprārum
Dative	caprae	caprīs
Accusative	capram	caprās
Ablative	caprā	caprīs
Vocative	capra	caprae

Derived terms

• caprārius
• caprīnus
• capriō

 

Descendants

• Aragonese: craba, crapa
• Aromanian: caprã
• Asturian: cabra
• Franco-Provençal: chiévra
• Friulian: cjavre
• Istriot: càvara
• Italian: capra
• Ladin: cëura
• Lombard: crava
• Mozarabic:

  Arabic: كابّْرة‎ (kapra)

  Hebrew: קאפּרה‎ (kapra)

• Neapolitan: crapa
• Old French: chievre, kievre
  • Middle French: chevre
    • → English: chèvre
    • French: chèvre
  • Norman: quièvre
  • Picard: kiève, tchiève (Amiens)
  • Tourangeau: chièvre
  • Walloon: tchive
• Old Occitan: cabra
  • Catalan: cabra
  • Occitan: cabra, chabra, craba
    • → Franco-Provençal: cabra
• Old Portuguese:
  • Galician: cabra
  • Portuguese: cabra
• Romanian: capră
• Romansch: chaura, caura, tgora, chevra
• Sardinian: craba
• Sicilian: crapa
• Spanish: cabra
• Translingual: Capra
• Venetian: cavra, càora, càvara

See also

• capella
• caper
• caprea

Noun

caprā f

1. ablative singular of capra

References

• capra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
• capra in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
• capra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• capra in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934
• capra in Harry Thurston Peck, editor, Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898

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Romanian

Noun

capra f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of capră