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Senscapital (city)
Espagnol
/kapiˈtal/
fém.savant
La capital is the city; el capital is money invested.
Français
/kapital/
fém.savant
Le capital is money.
Italien
/kapiˈtale/
fém.savant
Il capitale is money.
Portugais
/kapiˈtaw/
fém.savant
Roumain
/kapiˈtalə/
fém.emprunté · French capitale
Catalan
/kəpiˈtal/
fém.savant
Anglais
/ˈkæpɪtəl/
du latin/français · Old French capital, from Latin CAPITĀLEM
L’ancêtre latin
CAPITĀLEM‘of the head, chief (CAPUT 'head')’
Les six sœurs en descendent, sauf indication contraire ci-dessous.
L’histoire
The capital is the 'head' city. In all three sisters, the gender tells you which capital you mean: feminine for the city, masculine for money.
Parents anglais: capital, captain, cap, chief
L’apprendre
Dans une phrase
- esRoma es la capital de Italia.
- frRome est la capitale de l'Italie.
- itRoma è la capitale d'Italia.
- ptRoma é a capital da Itália.
- roRoma este capitala Italiei.
- caRoma és la capital d'Itàlia.
- enRome is the capital of Italy.
La famille latine
CAPUT, CAPIT-· head
Classical CAPUT survived in Spanish, French and Italian only as the 'head' of things — cabo 'end, cape', chef 'chief', capo 'boss' — while the body part itself got new words (Spanish and Portuguese cabeza, cabeça from *CAPITIA; French tête and Italian testa from TESTA 'pot'). Romanian and Catalan never let go: cap is still the head on your shoulders. CAPITĀLE 'main property' gave the most surprising doublet: popular caudal and cheptel, English cattle and chattel, beside learned capital.
CAPUThead
escabofrchefitcapoptcaborocapcacapenchief
*CAPITIAhead (spoken Latin)
escabezaptcabeça
CAPITĀLEchief property, stock
escaudalfrcheptelptcabedalcacabalencattle
CAPITĀLEMof the head, principal (learned)
escapitalfrcapitalitcapitaleptcapitalrocapitalcacapitalencapital
CAPITULUMlittle head; heading, chapter
escapítulofrchapitreitcapitoloptcapítulorocapitolcacapítolenchapter
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