capitulate
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)
- (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.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 14, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
- The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated.
- (transitive, obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
- (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
- 1661, Peter Heylin, Ecclesia restaurata
Synonyms
- (surrender, end resistance, give up): wave the white flag
Related terms
- chapiter
- chapter
- capital
- capitalism
- captain
- capitulation
- capitulatory
- recapitulate
Translations
surrender; end all resistance; to give up; to go along with or comply
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