Meaning of caput | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The head. (of human and animals)
   declension-3, neuter
2. The head as the seat of the understanding.
   declension-3, neuter, poetic
3. (of inanimate things)
   declension-3, neuter
4. (of inanimate things):
   declension-3, neuter, usually
5. The head, top, summit, point, end, extremity (beginning or end).
   declension-3, neuter, usually
6. The origin, source, spring (head). (of rivers)
   declension-3, neuter
7. The mouth, embouchure.
   declension-3, neuter, rare
8. The root.
   declension-3, neuter, sometimes
9. Vine branches.
   declension-3, neuter
10. (of trees) The summit, top.
    declension-3, neuter, poetic
11. A man, person, or animal.
    declension-3, neuter
12. Physical life.
    declension-3, figuratively, neuter
13. Civil or political life.
    declension-3, figuratively, neuter
14. The first or chief person or thing; the head, leader, chief, guide, capital.
    declension-3, figuratively, neuter
15. A division, section, paragraph, chapter.
    declension-3, figuratively, neuter
16. A headlike protuberance on an organ or body part, usually bone.
    New-Latin, declension-3, neuter
17. A disease; a severe swelling of the soft tissues of a newborn's scalp that develops as the baby travels through the birth canal.
    New-Latin, declension-3, neuter

Equivalents

Examples

“caput hūmānum”

human head

“caput rerum”

the main point of the matter

““… mē puer Ascanius capitisque iniūria cārī,”

“[I consider] my son Ascanius, and my wronging of his dear life’s summit, [how] I deprive him of his Hesperian kingdom and destined fields.” (Ascanius will become a legendary king and ancestor of the gens Julia.)

“nunc ad aquae lēne caput sacrae.”

now by some gentle river's sacred spring.

“[…] omnibus pollicitationibus ac praemiis deposcunt qui belli initium faciant et sui capitis periculo Galliam in libertatem vindicent.”

and by every sort of promises and rewards, they earnestly solicit some to begin the war, and assert the freedom of Gaul at the hazard of their lives.

“ut mea Rōma caput orbis terrārum sit”

that my Rome shall be the capital of the world

“quippe concēdentibus Rōmam caput Latiō esse”

seeing that we acknowledge Rome to be the capital of Latium

“capita rerum”

the heads of the state affairs

“caput ulnae”

head of the ulna

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