caput

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure
noun the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains

Learned borrowing from Latin caput (“the head”). Doublet of cape, capo, chef, and chief, and distantly of head and Howth.

"Me!" ejaculated Caput in horror. — By Advice of Counsel, Arthur Cheney Train
per capita, by 8. cap. — Orthography : $b as outlined in the state course of study for Illinois : seventh and eighth years, Elmer W. (Elmer Warren) Cavins
He was Peter the capita. — An African Adventure, Isaac Frederick Marcosson

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