"per capita" meaning in English

See per capita in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin per capita. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|per capita}} Latin per capita Head templates: {{en-adj|-|nolinkhead=1}} per capita (not comparable)
  1. per person Tags: not-comparable Translations (per person): 人均的 (rénjūn de) (Chinese Mandarin), per indbygger (Danish), per hoofd (Dutch), henkilöä kohti (Finnish), asukasta kohti (Finnish), par personne (French), Pro-Kopf- [compound] (German), માથાદીઠ (māthādīṭh) (Gujarati), प्रति व्यक्ति (prati vyakti) (Hindi), फ़ी आदमी (fī ādmī) (Hindi), per kapita (Indonesian), 일인당 (irindang) (Korean), per capita (Latin), दरडोई (darḍoī) (Marathi), per capita (Polish), per capita (Portuguese), pe cap de locuitor (Romanian), por cabeza (Spanish), bawat ulo (Tagalog), མི་རེ་རེའི (mi re re'i) (Tibetan), đầu người (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-per_capita-en-adj-8aVRYHWz Disambiguation of 'per person': 100 0
  2. shared equally among all individuals Tags: not-comparable Translations (shared equally among all individuals): par habitant (French)
    Sense id: en-per_capita-en-adj-ylGL8r7U Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 43 5 45 Disambiguation of 'shared equally among all individuals': 0 100

Adverb

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin per capita. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|per capita}} Latin per capita Head templates: {{en-adv|-|nolinkhead=1}} per capita (not comparable)
  1. per person Tags: not-comparable Translations (per person): 人均 (rénjūn) (Chinese Mandarin), per hoofd (Dutch), pokapa (Esperanto), par habitant (French), pro Kopf (German), a testa (Italian), pro capite (Italian), 一人当たり (hitori-atari) (alt: ひとりあたり) (Japanese), per capita (Portuguese), pe cap de locuitor (Romanian), per cap de locuitor (Romanian), per capita (Romanian), pe capita (Romanian), на ду́шу населе́ния (na dúšu naselénija) (Russian), bawat ulo (Tagalog), མི་རེ་རེའི (mi re re'i) (Tibetan), adam başına (Turkish), adam başı (Turkish), kişi başına (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-per_capita-en-adv-8aVRYHWz Disambiguation of 'per person': 100 0
  2. equally among all individuals Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-per_capita-en-adv-1l3nHysm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 43 5 45

Alternative forms

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      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "per person",
      "word": "bawat ulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "mi re re'i",
      "sense": "per person",
      "word": "མི་རེ་རེའི"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "per person",
      "word": "adam başına"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "per person",
      "word": "adam başı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "per person",
      "word": "kişi başına"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "per capita"
  ],
  "word": "per capita"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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