capitaine
Middle French
noun
Definitions
- (military) captain
Etymology
Inherited from Old French capitaine (leader) borrowed from Latin capitaneus.
Origin
Latin
capitaneus
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- captain English
- capitaneus Latin
- capitāneus Latin
- caput Latin
- katona Hungarian
- capitano Italian
- kapitein Dutch, Flemish
- capitaine French
- capitainerie French
- капита́н Russian
- kapten Swedish
- capitain Middle English
- captaen Irish
- capitaine Old French
- chevetaine Old French
- capitein Middle Dutch
- kapitān Middle High German
- капитен Macedonian
- κατεπάνω gkm
- capitāneus ML