Noun: capitain
| Sg. | capitain |
| Pl. | capitaines |
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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Thyꝛwall þ[at] was þ[air] capitain / Wes þ[air] in þe baꝛgain slain / ⁊ off his men þe maſt p[ar]ty / Ϸe laue fled full affrayitly (Thirlwall, who was their commander / was killed there in the struggle / with the greatest part of his men; / the rest fled very frightened.) [c. 1375, “Book VI”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß […] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2), Ouchtirmunsye: Iohannes Ramsay, published 1489, folio 21, recto, lines 431-434; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:]
Nouns inflected like capitain
wheston,
scarth,
scough,
schour,
scherd,
scheld,
schalk,
schaft,
smythy,
bombard,
bochous,
hereditament,
syngyng,
peretre,
bastard,
conquest,
comaundour,
patroun,
pacient,
playing, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French capitaine, itself borrowed from Late Latin capitāneus. Doublet of cheveteyn.
Verbs referencing "capitain"
English Nouns
captain.
Translations