Etymology

capitaine

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Today it means: A captain. Full definition →

French capitaine ← Middle French capitaine ← Old French capitaine
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*kap-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*kap-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*káput
  4. Proto-Italic*kaput
  5. Latincaput
  6. Late Latincapitāneu
  7. Old Frenchcapitaine
  8. Middle Frenchcapitaine
  9. Frenchcapitaine
  10. English todaycapitaine

Borrowed from French capitaine.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.