capitulate

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See also: capitoulate

English

WOTD – 9 April 2007

Etymology

From the participle stem of Medieval Latin capitulare (“draw up under headings”), from Latin capitulum (“heading, chapter, title”), diminutive of caput (“head”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈpɪ.tjʊ.leɪt/, /kəˈpɪ.t͡ʃə.leɪt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jʊ.leɪt/, /kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jə.leɪt/
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Verb

capitulate (third-person singular simple present capitulates, present participle capitulating, simple past and past participle capitulated)

  1. (intransitive) To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
    Antonyms: see Thesaurus:defeat
    He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
    • 1661, Peter Heylin, Ecclesia restaurata:
      there capitulates with the king […] to take to wife his daughter Mary

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Verb

capitulate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of capitular combined with te
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