capitaine
French
noun
Definitions
- captain, leader
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French capitaine inherited from Old French capitaine (leader) borrowed from Latin capitaneus, 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
- captain English
- caput English
- caput Mundi 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
- capita 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
- katona Hungarian
- Cattaneo Italian
- capa Italian
- capitano Italian
- caporale Italian
- capriccio Italian
- kapitein Dutch, Flemish
- capitainerie French
- capote French
- chef French
- капита́н Russian
- капитанский Russian
- acabar Spanish, Castilian
- capitán Spanish, Castilian
- capota Spanish, Castilian
- *kauput- Proto-Indo-European
- kapp Norwegian Bokmål
- sjef Norwegian Bokmål
- caput Portuguese
- kapten Swedish
- kapp Norwegian Nynorsk
- sjef Norwegian Nynorsk
- cabage, caboche Middle English
- capitain Middle English
- captaen Irish
- قبطان Arabic
- قُبْطان Arabic
- caboce Old French
- capitaine Old French
- chanfrain Old French
- chevetaine Old French
- chief Old French
- capità Catalan, Valencian
- կապիտան Armenian
- capitein Middle Dutch
- cap'taine Norman
- kapitān Middle High German
- капитан Kazakh
- capitaine Middle French
- capitainerie Middle French
- kapten Estonian
- kapitein Middle Low German
- капитен Macedonian
- acabar Occitan
- cabussar Occitan
- cap Occitan
- *kaput Proto-Italic
- acabar Asturian
- capa Sicilian
- capitolie xno
- κατεπάνω gkm
- capa Tarantino
- capitāneus ML