"capital (city)" in sette lingue
Significatocapital (city)
Spagnolo
/kapiˈtal/
f.dotta
La capital is the city; el capital is money invested.
Francese
/kapital/
f.dotta
Le capital is money.
Italiano
/kapiˈtale/
f.dotta
Il capitale is money.
Portoghese
/kapiˈtaw/
f.dotta
Rumeno
/kapiˈtalə/
f.prestito · French capitale
Catalano
/kəpiˈtal/
f.dotta
Inglese
/ˈkæpɪtəl/
dal latino/francese · Old French capital, from Latin CAPITĀLEM
L’antenato latino
CAPITĀLEM‘of the head, chief (CAPUT 'head')’
Tutte e sei le sorelle discendono da questa parola, salvo diversa indicazione qui sotto.
La storia
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.
Parenti inglesi: capital, captain, cap, chief
Imparala
In una frase
- 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 famiglia latina
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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