capataz

• capatas

Borrowed from Spanish capataz.

capataz (plural capataces)

1. boss, foreman, overseer
   • 1903, Joseph Conrad, F. M. Hueffer, Romance‎:

     “My gentle spirit is roused to the accomplishment of great things. I feel in me a valiance, an inspiration. I am no vulgar seller of aguardiente, like Domingo. I was born to be the capataz of the Lugarenos.”

   • 1922, Joseph Hergesheimer, Cytherea‎:

     The capataz of the batey gang, a tall flushed Jamaican negro, passed on a cantering white pony.

Borrowed from Spanish capataz.^[1]

• Hyphenation: ca‧pa‧taz

capataz m (plural capatazes)

1. (management) foreman

   Synonyms: gerente, administrador, chefe, controlador, feitor, organizador, superintendente, supervisor

• Kadiwéu: gabateegi

From Latin caput (“head”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kapaˈtaθ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kapaˈtas/
• Rhymes: -aθ
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: ca‧pa‧taz

capataz m (plural capataces, feminine capataz or capataza, feminine plural capataces or capatazas)

1. (management) foreman
2. overseer
   • 1917, Horacio Quiroga, “Los Mensú”, in Cuentos de Amor de Locura y de Muerte‎:

     Los perseguidores lo presumían; pero como dentro del monte, el que ataca tiene cien probabilidades contra una de ser detenido por una bala en mitad de la frente, el capataz se contentaba con salvas de winchester y aullidos desafiantes.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• → English: capataz
• → Portuguese: capataz

• “capataz”, 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