Kapo – German noun declension

Noun: Kapo
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:

Nominative

Genitive

Dative

Accusative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like Kapo

Paso Doble, Minipli, Ajatollah, Black-out, Emoji, Flashmob, Longline, Flammeri, Pidgin, Python, Fuffi, Aspie, Apéro, Aioli, Alpha, Kabrio, Gulag, Gamma, Digamma, Homescreen, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Clipping of Kaporal (Upper German), from Italian caporale (“corporal”), from Italian capo, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput. There is some uncertainty about the etymology of the sense "prisoner functionary". Pfeifer connects it to the same etymology as above, however Duden claims an origin in French caporal. In favour of Pfeifer is the fact that the first concentration camp, Dachau, was in Upper German territory and many early inmates came from the workers' movement and trade unions, who could have introduced the dialectal term Kapo (“site foreman”) (construction slang). Compare also East Franconian Kapo, Rhine Franconian Kapo, Alemannic German Capo, all meaning "foreman". Although plausible, the folk-etymology which assumes a direct loan from Italian capo (“boss, chief”) suggested by occasional spellings Capo, Lagercapo and no-doubt reinforced in later times by the Italian term's dissemination in the wake of the Godfather trilogy has not been substantiated. Doublet of Korporal and (obsolete) Kapo (“military commander”). See: Italian Nouns 'caporale', Italian Nouns 'capo', Latin Nouns 'caput', French Nouns 'caporal'.

Verbs referencing "Kapo"

English Nouns kapo, French Nouns kapo, Italian Nouns kapò, Hungarian Nouns kápó.

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