capa

From Spanish capa. Doublet of cape and cappa.

capa (countable and uncountable, plural capas)

1. (countable) A Spanish cloak.
2. (uncountable) Fine Cuban tobacco for the outsides of cigars.

• AACP, ACPA, APAC, APCA, CAAP, PAAc, paca

Inherited from Late Latin cappa. Compare Occitan capa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

• Rhymes: -apa

capa f (plural capes)

1. layer

   Al Photoshop s'usen diferents capes per tractar la imatge.

   In Photoshop different layers are used to work with images.

   La capa d'ozó està en perill.

   The ozone layer is endangered.

2. film, skin (layer that forms on the top of certain liquids)

   Synonym: tel

3. coat (of paint)

   Synonym: mà

4. cape

   El duc portava una capa molt maca.

   The duke was wearing a very beautiful cape.

• capejar
• capirot
• caperó

• aguantar la capa ― to be with a couple, disturbing them in flirting (compare cockblock) (literally, “hold the cape”)
• anar de capa caiguda ― to have a bad season (literally, “to go with fallen cape”)
• de capa i espasa ― a fictional genre about wars, cavalry and old times (literally, “about cape and sword”)

• “capa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “capa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

capa

1. inflection of capar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ka.pa/

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• Homophones: capas, capât

capa

1. third-person singular past historic of caper

From Old Galician-Portuguese capa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin cappa. Cognate with Portuguese capa and Spanish capa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkapa̝/

capa f (plural capas)

1. cloak, cape
2. runner stone (upper, mobile millstone)
3. each one of the flagstones which tops a wall
4. layer

   Ese ten máis capas que unha cebola. ― That guy has more layers than an onion.

• capela
• capelo
• caparucha
• chapeu
• pucha
• pucho

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “capa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “capa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “capa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “capa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “capa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

capa

1. inflection of capar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From a southern dialectal form of capo (“head”), from Latin caput. Compare Neapolitan, Sicilian, Tarantino capa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.pa/
• Rhymes: -apa
• Hyphenation: cà‧pa

capa f (plural cape)

1. head

   Synonyms: capo, testa

capa f (plural cape)

1. (often humorous) female equivalent of capo (“boss”)
2. Alternative form of kappa

• paca

From earlier (Late Latin) cappa.

capa f (genitive capae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) Alternative form of cappa

First-declension noun.

• capa 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)
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “cappa”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

• Hyphenation: ca‧pa

capa (Jawi spelling چاڤ, plural capa-capa, informal 1st possessive capaku, 2nd possessive capamu, 3rd possessive capanya)

1. Ngai camphor (Blumea balsamifera)

   Synonyms: capu, capur, sambung, sembong, telinga kerbau

• “capa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• capo

From Latin caput.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkapə/

capa f (plural cape)

1. head (the part of the body containing the brain)

   Teneva nu cappiello janco ncapa.

   They were wearing a white hat on their head.

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 93: “la testa” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sa.pa/

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• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: ca‧pa

capa m animal

1. genitive/accusative singular of cap

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• Rhymes: -apɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧pa

From Old Galician-Portuguese capa, from Late Latin cappa.

capa f (plural capas)

1. cloak; cape (long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back)
2. (printing) cover (front and back of a book or magazine)
3. the front cover or front page of a publication
4. jacket (protective or insulating cover for an object)
5. (bullfighting) cape (cloth used by a bullfighter to trick the bull)
6. (figurative) cloak (a false pretext or appearance)
7. (geology) a top layer of rock
8. wrapper (outer layer of a cigar)
9. (colloquial) condom

• → Japanese: 合羽
• → Kadiwéu: caapa
• → Tetum: kapa

Borrowed from Late Latin cappa, from Ancient Greek κάππα (káppa), from Phoenician 𐤊𐤐 (kp /⁠kaph⁠/), from Proto-Semitic *kapp- (“palm, hand”).

capa m (plural capas)

1. (Portugal) kay (name of the Latin letter K, k)

   Synonym: (Brazil) cá

2. kappa (name of the Greek letter Κ, κ)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

capa

1. inflection of capar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “capa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• capu

From older capu, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkapa/
• Hyphenation: ca‧pa

capa f (plural capi)

1. (anatomy) head

Inherited from Old Spanish capa, from Late Latin cappa. Cognate with English cape and cope (“priestly vestment”). Compare English coping (“top layer of a brick wall”) for an English comparable semantic sense of a "layer".

• IPA^(key): /ˈkapa/

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• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: ca‧pa

capa f (plural capas)

1. cloak, cape (a sleeveless garment hanging from the neck)
2. coat, sheet (a covering of material, such as paint)
3. layer (a single thickness of some material covering a surface)
4. guise; pretext

• → English: capa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

capa

1. inflection of capar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “capa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

From Latin caput. Compare Neapolitan and Sicilian capa.

capa

1. head