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5-letter words (1 found)

CAPUT,

4-letter words (5 found)

CAUP,PACT,PATU,TAPU,UPTA,

3-letter words (13 found)

ACT,APT,CAP,CAT,CUP,CUT,PAC,PAT,PUT,TAP,TAU,TUP,UTA,

2-letter words (5 found)

AT,PA,TA,UP,UT,

You can make 24 words from caput according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of caput

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Definitions and meaning of caput

caput

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəpˈʊt/, /ˈkæp.ət/

Noun

caput (plural caputs or capita)

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

Related terms

  • capite
  • caput mortuum

Anagrams

  • act up

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from German kaputt.

Noun

caput m (uncountable)

  1. kaput

See also

  • fer caput

Latin

Alternative forms

  • (part or division of a writing): cap., c.
  • capud

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *káput-. Cognates include German Haupt and English head.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.put/, [ˈkäpʊt̪]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.put/, [ˈkäːput̪]

Noun

caput n (genitive capitis); third declension

  1. The head. (of human and animals)
    1. (poetic) The head as the seat of the understanding.
  2. (transferred sense) (of inanimate things):
    1. (in general) The head, top, summit, point, end, extremity (beginning or end).
    1. The origin, source, spring (head). (of rivers)
    2. (rare, of rivers) The mouth, embouchure.
    3. (botany, sometimes) The root.
    4. Vine branches.
    5. (poetic) (of trees) The summit, top.
    caput rerum ― the main point of the matter
  3. (literature) A man, person, or animal.
  4. (figurative):
    1. Physical life.
    2. Civil or political life.
    3. (very frequently) The first or chief person or thing; the head, leader, chief, guide, capital.
    capita rerum ― the heads of the state affairs
  5. (writing) A division, section, paragraph, chapter.
    Synonym: capitulum
  6. (New Latin, anatomy) A headlike protuberance on an organ or body part, usually bone.
    caput ulnae ― head of the ulna
  7. (New Latin, pathology) A disease; a severe swelling of the soft tissues of a newborn's scalp that develops as the baby travels through the birth canal.

Usage notes

Caput can be used with either a genitive or a dative in the sense of a capital city.

Inflection

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • From *capucla, feminine of *capuclum, for *caputulum:
    • Italian: capocchia
  • From *caputia:
    • Italian: capoccia

References

  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “caput”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 130

Further reading

  • “caput”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “caput”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caput in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • caput in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “caput”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caput in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • “caput”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “head”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin caput (“the head”). Doublet of cabo, chefe, and chef.

Pronunciation

Noun

caput m (plural capita)(Brazil, higher register)

  1. that which is located above
  2. (law) a title or header of a legal article containing its central idea

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