capra
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.
NounEdit
capra f (plural capre, masculine capro)
- goat (mammal)
- nanny goat
- trestle
Related termsEdit
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AnagramsEdit
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
NounEdit
capra f (genitive caprae); first declension
DeclensionEdit
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 termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Aragonese: craba, crapa
- Aromanian: caprã
- Asturian: cabra
- Franco-Provençal: chiévra
- Friulian: cjavre
- Istriot: càvara
- Italian: capra
- Ladin: cëura
- Neapolitan: crapa
- Old French: chievre
- Old Occitan: cabra
- Old Portuguese:
- Romanian: capră
- Romansch: chaura, caura, tgora, chevra
- Sardinian: craba
- Sicilian: crapa
- Spanish: cabra
- Translingual: Capra
- Venetian: cavra, càora, càvara
See alsoEdit
NounEdit
caprā f
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
- capra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- capra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- capra in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers