capitán
Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]capitán m (plural capitáns, feminine capitá, feminine plural capitás)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “capitán”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Spanish
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin capitāneus,[1] from caput (“head”) + -āneus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]capitán m (plural capitanes, feminine capitana, feminine plural capitanas)
- captain (leader)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: capitan
- → Tagalog: kapitan
- → Ye'kwana: kajichaana
References
[edit]- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “capitán”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 834
Further reading
[edit]- “capitán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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