Meaning

  1. (ambitransitive) to understand
  2. (figuratively, intransitive, rare) to fit, to be contained

Frequency

A1
Hyphenated as
ca‧pì‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kaˈpi.re/
Etymology

From Latin capiō (“to take in, understand”), from Proto-Italic *kapiō, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *keh₂p- (“to seize, grab”). Compare Galician, Spanish, and Portuguese caber (“to fit”), Catalan capir (“to understand”), and German kapieren (“to understand”).

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