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Italian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈpi.to/
- Rhymes: -ito
- Hyphenation: ca‧pì‧to
Participle
capito (feminine capita, masculine plural capiti, feminine plural capite)
- past participle of capire
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
capito
- first-person singular present indicative of capitare
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From the oblique stem of caput (“head”) + -ō (“forming related nouns”)
Noun
capitō m (genitive capitōnis); third declension
- one who has a large head
- (Medieval Latin) a tree trunk
- (Medieval Latin) a kind of silver coinage under Louis XII of France
- (Medieval Latin) an andiron, a fire dog
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “căpĭto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “capitō”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- 1. CAPITO 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)
- 2. CAPITO 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)
- 4. CAPITO 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)
- 1 căpĭto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “260/1”
- “capitō” on page 271/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
capitō
- second/third-person singular future active imperative of capiō
Portuguese
Verb
capito
- first-person singular present indicative of capitar