English Explanatory Dictionary

caput

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The head.
  2. A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.
  3. The top or superior part of a thing.
  4. The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
  5. Ellipsis of caput succedaneum.

Pronunciation

/kəˈpʊt/ /ˈkæp.ət/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-caput.wav

Word forms

caput caputs capita

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin caput (“the head”). Doublet of cape, capo, chef, and chief, and distantly of head and Howth.

Related words

capite caput mortuum capote
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