capitaneus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- From caput (“head”) + -āneus.
- Later absorbed and merged with similar catepanus, capetanus, and other Vulgar Latin renderings of katepano, the senior rank and title of Byzantine military captains of the Catepanate of Italy, from Byzantine Greek κατεπάνω (katepánō, literally “[the one] placed at the top, or the topmost”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ka.piˈtaː.ne.us/, [käpɪˈt̪äːneʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka.piˈta.ne.us/, [käpiˈt̪äːneus]
Adjective
[edit]capitāneus (feminine capitānea, neuter capitāneum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | capitāneus | capitānea | capitāneum | capitāneī | capitāneae | capitānea | |
| genitive | capitāneī | capitāneae | capitāneī | capitāneōrum | capitāneārum | capitāneōrum | |
| dative | capitāneō | capitāneae | capitāneō | capitāneīs | |||
| accusative | capitāneum | capitāneam | capitāneum | capitāneōs | capitāneās | capitānea | |
| ablative | capitāneō | capitāneā | capitāneō | capitāneīs | |||
| vocative | capitānee | capitānea | capitāneum | capitāneī | capitāneae | capitānea | |
Descendants
[edit]- Ligurian: capitan
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Old French: chevetaine
- Venetan: capetanio, capitan
- → Greek: καπετάνιος (kapetánios)
- → Ottoman Turkish: كاپتان
Via capitānea f:
- Italian: capitagna
Via capitāneum n:
- Aromanian: cãpitãnj, cãpitãnjiu, cãpitinj, cãpitinjiu, cãpitunj, cãpitunjiu
- Romanian: căpătâi
- Borrowings
- → Old French: capitaine
- → Catalan: capità
- → Occitan: capitani
- → Polish: kapitan
- → Spanish: capitán
- → English: capitan
- → Tagalog: kapitan
- → Ye'kwana: kajichaana
- → English: capitan
Unsorted borrowings
- → Arabic: قبطان (qubṭān)
- → Belarusian: капітан (kapitan)
- → Bulgarian: капитан (kapitan)
- → Crimean Tatar: kapitan
- → Georgian: კაპიტანი (ḳaṗiṭani)
- → Hebrew: קפטן (kepten)
- → Hijazi Arabic: قبطان (gubṭān)
- → Hungarian: kapitány
- → Icelandic: kapteinn
- → Latvian: kapteinis
- → Macedonian: капетан (kapetan)
- → Malayalam: കപ്പിത്താന് (kappittānŭ)
- → Maltese: kaptan
- → Persian: کاپیتان (kâpitân)
- → Scottish Gaelic: caiptean
- → Serbo-Croatian: капетан / kapetan
- → Slovak: kapitán
- → Slovene: kapetan
- → Welsh: capten
- → Yiddish: קאַפּיטאַן (kapitan)
Noun
[edit]capitāneus m (genitive capitāneī, feminine capitānea); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | capitāneus | capitāneī |
| genitive | capitāneī | capitāneōrum |
| dative | capitāneō | capitāneīs |
| accusative | capitāneum | capitāneōs |
| ablative | capitāneō | capitāneīs |
| vocative | capitānee | capitāneī |
References
[edit]- “capitaneus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- capitaneus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- capitaneus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Salmon Claudine. Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges. In: Archipel, volume 78, 2009. pp. 181-208
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- Latin terms suffixed with -aneus
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- Latin masculine nouns in the second declension
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