capito

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpi.to/
• Rhymes: -ito
• Hyphenation: ca‧pì‧to

capito (feminine capita, masculine plural capiti, feminine plural capite)

1. past participle of capire

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.pi.to/
• Rhymes: -apito
• Hyphenation: cà‧pi‧to

capito

1. first-person singular present indicative of capitare

• -patico, aptico, capoti, patico, topica

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pi.toː/, [ˈkäpɪt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pi.to/, [ˈkäːpit̪o]

From the oblique stem of caput (“head”) +‎ -ō (suffix forming related nouns)

capitō m (genitive capitōnis); third declension

1. one who has a large head
2. a kind of mullet (fish)
3. (Medieval Latin) a tree trunk
4. (Medieval Latin) a kind of silver coinage under Louis XII of France
5. (Medieval Latin) an andiron, a fire dog

Third-declension noun.

• (tree trunk): truncus (Classical)

• Capitō

• Italian: capitone, cavedano, cavedine

• “căpĭto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “capitō”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• 1. CAPITO 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)
• 2. CAPITO 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)
• 4. CAPITO 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)
• 1 căpĭto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “260/1”
• “capitō” on page 271/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

capitō

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of capiō

capito

1. first-person singular present indicative of capitar