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capa

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "capa"

English

Etymology

From Spanish capa. Doublet of cape and cappa.

Noun

capa (countable and uncountable, plural capas)

  1. (countable) A Spanish cloak.
  2. (uncountable) Fine Cuban tobacco for the outsides of cigars.

Anagrams

Albanian

Noun

capa

  1. inflection of capë:
    1. definite nominative singular
    2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin cappa. Compare Occitan capa.

Pronunciation

Noun

capa f (plural capes)

  1. layer
    Al Photoshop s'usen diferents capes per tractar la imatge.
    In Photoshop different layers are used to work with images.
    La capa d'ozó està en perill.
    The ozone layer is endangered.
  2. film, skin (layer that forms on the top of certain liquids)
    Synonym: tel
  3. coat (of paint)
    Synonym: mà
  4. cape
    El duc portava una capa molt maca.
    The duke was wearing a very beautiful cape.
Derived terms
Collocations
  • aguantar la capa ― to be with a couple, disturbing them in flirting (compare cockblock) (literally, “hold the cape”)
  • anar de capa caiguda ― to have a bad season (literally, “to go with fallen cape”)
  • de capa i espasa ― a fictional genre about wars, cavalry and old times (literally, “about cape and sword”)

Further reading

Etymology 2

Verb

capa

  1. inflection of capar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

French

Pronunciation

Verb

capa

  1. third-person singular past historic of caper

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese capa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin cappa. Cognate with Portuguese capa and Spanish capa.

Pronunciation

Noun

capa f (plural capas)

  1. cloak, cape
  2. runner stone (upper, mobile millstone)
  3. each one of the flagstones which tops a wall
  4. layer
    Ese ten máis capas que unha cebola. ― That guy has more layers than an onion.

References

Etymology 2

Verb

capa

  1. inflection of capar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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Italian

Etymology

From a southern dialectal form of capo (“head”), from Latin caput. Compare Neapolitan, Sicilian, Tarantino capa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.pa/
  • Rhymes: -apa
  • Hyphenation: cà‧pa

Noun

capa f (plural cape)

  1. head
    Synonyms: capo, testa

Noun

capa f (plural cape)

  1. (often humorous) female equivalent of capo (“boss”)
  2. alternative form of kappa

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From earlier (Late Latin) cappa.

Noun

capa f (genitive capae); first declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) alternative form of cappa

Declension

First-declension noun.

More information singular, plural ...

References

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Malay

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ca‧pa

Noun

capa (Jawi spelling چاڤ, plural capa-capa or capa2)

  1. Ngai camphor (Blumea balsamifera)
    Synonyms: capu, capur, sambung, sembong, telinga kerbau

Further reading

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin caput.

Pronunciation

Noun

capa f (plural cape)

  1. head (the part of the body containing the brain)
    Teneva nu cappiello janco ncapa.
    They were wearing a white hat on their head.

References

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 93: “la testa” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Pagu

Pronunciation

Noun

capa

  1. face

References

  • Perangin Angin, Dalan Mehuli (2023), Kamus Pagu-Indonesia-Inggris, Jakarta: Penerbit BRIN

Paiwan

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *Capa.

Verb

capa

  1. to roast; to broil; to bake

Derived terms

  • cacapan
  • capain
  • capan
  • cemapa
  • cemapacapa
  • cinapan
  • macapa
  • sicapacapan

Further reading

  • 原住民族語言線上辭典 [Online Dictionary of Indigenous Languages]‎ (in Mandarin), Taipei: Indigenous Languages Research and Development Foundation, 2014–2025

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sa.pa/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -apa
  • Syllabification: ca‧pa

Noun

capa m animal

  1. genitive/accusative singular of cap

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -apɐ
  • Hyphenation: ca‧pa

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese capa, from Late Latin cappa.

Noun

capa f (plural capas)

  1. cloak; cape (long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back)
  2. (printing) cover (front and back of a book or magazine)
  3. the front cover or front page of a publication
  4. jacket (protective or insulating cover for an object)
  5. (bullfighting) cape (cloth used by a bullfighter to trick the bull)
  6. (figurative) cloak (a false pretext or appearance)
  7. (geology) a top layer of rock
  8. wrapper (outer layer of a cigar)
  9. (colloquial) condom
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Japanese: 合羽
  • → Kadiwéu: caapa
  • → Tetum: kapa

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Late Latin cappa, from Ancient Greek κάππα (káppa), from Phoenician 𐤊𐤐 (kp /⁠kaph⁠/), from Proto-Semitic *kapp- (“palm, hand”).

Noun

capa m (plural capas)

  1. (Portugal) The name of the Latin-script letter K/k.
    Synonym: (Brazil) cá
  2. kappa (name of the Greek letter Κ, κ)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

capa

  1. inflection of capar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

See also

Further reading

Sicilian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From older capu, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkapa/
  • Hyphenation: ca‧pa

Noun

capa f (plural capi)

  1. (anatomy) head

Spanish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish capa, from Late Latin cappa. Cognate with English cape and cope (“priestly vestment”). Compare English coping (“top layer of a brick wall”) for an English comparable semantic sense of a "layer".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkapa/ [ˈka.pa]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -apa
  • Syllabification: ca‧pa

Noun

capa f (plural capas)

  1. cloak, cape (a sleeveless garment hanging from the neck)
  2. coat, sheet (a covering of material, such as paint)
  3. layer (a single thickness of some material covering a surface)
  4. guise; pretext
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

capa

  1. inflection of capar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Tarantino

Etymology

From Latin caput. Compare Neapolitan and Sicilian capa.

Noun

capa

  1. head

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