capo
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkæ.pəʊ/, /ˈkeɪ.pou/
Audio (UK) (file)
Etymology 1
Shortening of capotasto, from Italian.
Noun
capo (plural capos)
- A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.
Synonyms
- (movable bar): capotasto
Translations
Etymology 2
From Italian capo (“head, chief”).
Noun
capo (plural capos or capi)
- A leader in the Mafia; a caporegime.
- A leader and organizer of supporters at a sporting event, particularly association football matches.
Translations
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See also
- capo di tutti capi
- capo tasto
- da capo
- da capo al fine
Anagrams
- ACPO, APCO, CoAP, Copa, OPAC, Paco, acop, paco
Catalan
Verb
capo
- first-person singular present indicative form of capar
Istriot
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.
Noun
capo m
- 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.
- Nun o’ pioün veîsto el pioûn biel capo biondo.
- 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:
Synonyms
- tiesta
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)
- head
- Synonym: testa
- boss, chief, leader, master
- end (of a rope etc.)
- Synonyms: fine, estremità
- cape (especially when capitalised/capitalized in placenames)
- ply
- buddy
- (heraldry) chief
Adjective
capo (invariable)
- head, chief, leading
- ispettore capo ― chief inspector
Related terms
- a capo
- appoggiacapo
- caparra
- capata
- capatina
- capezzale
- capinera
- capitare
- capitello
- capitombolo
- capo-
- capocchio
- capo d'abbigliamento
- capodanno
- capo del governo
- capo di stato
- capo di vestiario
- capogiro
- capolino
- caposaldo
- caposcala
- caposcalo
- daccapo
- in capo a
- rompicapo
- sottocapo
- tra capo e collo
Descendants
- → English: capo
- →? Istriot: capo
- → Spanish: capo
Anagrams
- paco, pacò, poca
Latin
Alternative forms
- cāpus (archaic)
- *cappō (reconstructed)
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
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkaː.poː/, [ˈkäːpoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.po/, [ˈkäːpo]
Noun
cāpō m (genitive cāpōnis); third declension
- a capon (castrated cockerel)
- (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
- Catalan: capó
- Friulian: cjapon
- → Greek: καπόνι (kapóni)
- Italian: cappone
- → Middle Dutch: capoen
- Dutch: kapoen
- Occitan: capon
- → Old English: capūn
- Middle English: capoun
- English: capon
- Middle English: capoun
- Old French: chapon
- Middle French: chappon
- French: chapon
- Middle French: chappon
- → Old High German: chappo
- Middle High German: kappūn
- German: Kapaun
- → Latvian: kapauns
- German: Kapaun
- → Polish: kapłon
- → Romanian: clapon
- Middle High German: kappūn
- Old Portuguese: capon
- Galician: capón
- Portuguese: capão
- Romanian: clapon
- Sardinian: caboni
- Sicilian: capuni
- Spanish: capón
- Venetian: capón
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
- IPA(key): /ˈka.pu/
- Rhymes: -apu
Verb
capo
- first-person singular present indicative of capar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkapo/ [ˈka.po]
- Rhymes: -apo
- Syllabification: ca‧po
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Italian capo (“head”). Related to cabo.
Noun
capo m (plural capos)
- gangster
- by extension, a very able person at doing something
- boss, chief
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
capo
- first-person singular present indicative of capar
Further reading
- “capo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014