caput

Senso (Inglese)

  1. The head.
  2. 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. (abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis) Ellipsis of caput succedaneum.

Pronunciato come (IPA)
/kəpˈʊt/
Etimologia (Inglese)

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

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