caput Mundi
English
phrase
Definitions
- A prominent city described as the capital of the world, primarily Rome.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin caput (head, etc, source).
Origin
Latin
caput
Gloss
head, etc, source
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
頭
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- capite English
- caput English
- *accapāre Latin
- *bottia Latin
- *capare Latin
- *capitina Latin
- *capum Latin
- *capāre Latin
- *cuppāre Latin
- *excapitāre Latin
- *excapitō Latin
- Reconstruction:Latin/capum Latin
- baculum Latin
- capa Latin
- capitalis Latin
- capitaneus Latin
- capitatio Latin
- capitatus Latin
- capitellum Latin
- capitergium Latin
- capitia Latin
- capitilavium Latin
- capitium Latin
- capito Latin
- capitulum Latin
- capitānea Latin
- capitāneus Latin
- capitāre Latin
- cappa Latin
- caput Latin
- occiput Latin
- praecipito Latin
- sinciput Latin
- ēricius Latin
- Kap German
- capa Italian
- caporale Italian
- capriccio Italian
- capote French
- chef French
- acabar Spanish, Castilian
- capota Spanish, Castilian
- *kauput- Proto-Indo-European
- kapp Norwegian Bokmål
- sjef Norwegian Bokmål
- caput Portuguese
- kapp Norwegian Nynorsk
- sjef Norwegian Nynorsk
- cabage, caboche Middle English
- caboce Old French
- chanfrain Old French
- chief Old French
- acabar Occitan
- cabussar Occitan
- cap Occitan
- *kaput Proto-Italic
- acabar Asturian
- capa Sicilian
- capitolie xno
- capa Tarantino