capo

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See also: Capo, capó, ĉapo, capô, and capo-

English

Etymology 1

Shortening of capotasto, from Italian.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkæpəʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑpəʊ/, /ˈkeɪpoʊ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

capo (plural capos)

  1. A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.
Synonyms
Translations
capotasto — see capotasto

Etymology 2

From Italian capo (“head, chief”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkæpəʊ/, /ˈkɑːpəʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkæpoʊ/, /ˈkɑpəʊ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

capo (plural capos or capi)

  1. A leader in the Mafia; a caporegime.
  2. A leader and organizer of supporters at a sporting event, particularly association football matches.
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Etymology 3

Noun

capo (plural capos)

  1. Alternative spelling of kapo
    • 2004, Gedenkstätte Buchenwald, Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1937-1945: A Guide to the Permanent Historical Exhibition, Wallstein Verlag, →ISBN, page 118:
      […] the capo in a sub-camp in 1940. As a foreman and capo in the quarry he earned the reputation of treating Jewish […]

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Catalan

Verb

capo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of capar

Galician

Verb

capo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of capar

Istriot

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin capus m < Latin caput n. On account of the unlenited /-p-/, presumably borrowed via Italian capo.

Noun

capo m

  1. head
    • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:
      Nun o’ pioün veîsto el pioûn biel capo biondo.
      I haven’t seen a more beautiful blonde head.

Synonyms

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *káput. Doublet of chef.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.po/
  • Rhymes: -apo
  • Hyphenation: cà‧po

Noun

capo m (plural capi)

  1. head
    Synonym: testa
  2. boss, chief, leader, master
  3. end (of a rope etc.)
    Synonyms: fine, estremità
  4. (geography) cape (especially when capitalised/capitalized in placenames)
  5. ply
  6. buddy
  7. (heraldry) chief

Adjective

capo (invariable)

  1. head, chief, leading
    ispettore capo ― chief inspector

Related terms

Descendants

  • → English: capo
  • →? Istriot: capo
  • → Spanish: capo
  • → Basque: kapo

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- or *(s)kap- (“to hew, cut, shovel”), from a PIE substrate word that also gave Latin scapulae - see Ancient Greek κόπτω (kóptō), Ancient Greek σκάπτω (skáptō) for further cognates and discussion, as well as Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Alternatively, from another substrate word that also gave Latin caper. In both cases the vocalism requires postulating a substrate origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

cāpō m (genitive cāpōnis); third declension

  1. a capon (castrated cockerel)
  2. (in general) a rooster

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cāpō cāpōnēs
Genitive cāpōnis cāpōnum
Dative cāpōnī cāpōnibus
Accusative cāpōnem cāpōnēs
Ablative cāpōne cāpōnibus
Vocative cāpō cāpōnēs

Descendants

See also

References

  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cāpus; scapulae”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Further reading

  • “capo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • capo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Verb

capo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of capar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkapo/
  • Rhymes: -apo
  • Syllabification: ca‧po

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian capo (“head”). Related to cabo.

Noun

capo m (plural capos)

  1. gangster
  2. by extension, a very able person at doing something
  3. boss, chief

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

capo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of capar

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