caput

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

head

dome

end

🔚

noddle

poll

skull

💀

terminal

cranium

top

🔝

Translations

cabeça

tête

testa

cabeza

cap

capo

pescoço

Cabeça e pescoço

رأْس

baş

Birne

🍐

Haupt

Kopf

κεφάλι

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəpˈʊt/

Etymology

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