chevetaine
Old French
noun
Definitions
- chief; captain; leader
Etymology
Inherited from Latin capitāneus, capita.
Origin
Latin
capita
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- chieftain English
- capita Latin
- capitaneus Latin
- capitāneum Latin
- capitāneus Latin
- caput Latin
- katona Hungarian
- Cattaneo Italian
- capitano Italian
- capitaine French
- capitán Spanish, Castilian
- cheftayne Middle English
- cheveteyn Middle English
- قبطان Arabic
- قُبْطان Arabic
- capitaine Old French
- capità Catalan, Valencian
- capăt Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- cap'taine Norman
- kapitān Middle High German
- kapten Estonian
- kapitein Middle Low German
- capit Aromanian
- κατεπάνω gkm
- chefftane sco-smi