caput

Meaning

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

Synonyms

head

dome

end

🔚

noddle

poll

skull

💀

terminal

cranium

top

🔝

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəpˈʊt/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin caput (“the head”), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head), itself from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Doublet of cape, capo, chef, and chief, and distantly of head and Howth.