Noun: cap
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | cap |
| Plural m | caps |
Sample Sentences
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cap d'estat (head of state)
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cap de setmana (weekend)
Nouns inflected like cap
urinari,
esferoide,
bolígraf,
dissentiment,
ajuntament,
serial,
serrat,
serral,
server,
servei,
depurador,
sextet,
sector,
secret,
secany,
secall,
seguit,
segell,
seient,
sedant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. substratebor.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *kap-?
4. Proto-Indo-European *kap-
5. Proto-Indo-European *káput
6. Proto-Italic *kaput
7. Latin caput
8. Vulgar Latin capus
9. Catalan cap
10. Inherited from Vulgar Latin capus (“head, chief”), from Latin caput (“head, etc.”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *káput. Compare Occitan cap. Compare also French personne (which can mean either "person" or "nobody"). See: Latin Nouns '
caput'.
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