Etymology

caput

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Today it means: The head. Full definition →

Latin caput
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromcaput“the head”
  2. English todaycaput

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

Words from the same roots

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