See caput in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "capitālis"
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{
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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{
"lang": "Sardinian",
"lang_code": "sc",
"word": "cabudu"
},
{
"lang": "Sardinian",
"lang_code": "sc",
"word": "cabude"
},
{
"lang": "Sardinian",
"lang_code": "sc",
"word": "cabide"
}
],
"lang": "Direct reflexes",
"lang_code": "unknown"
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{
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"borrowed"
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"borrowed"
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}
],
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"lang_code": "unknown"
},
{
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"word": "capocchia"
},
{
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"word": "capoccia"
}
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"genitive"
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"table-tags"
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{
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{
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"nominative",
"plural"
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{
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"genitive",
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"genitive",
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},
{
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[
"capitī",
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"dative",
"singular"
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{
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"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "caput",
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{
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"accusative",
"plural"
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{
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"ablative",
"singular"
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{
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"ablative",
"plural"
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{
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{
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"plural",
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{
"form": "cap.",
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]
},
{
"form": "c.",
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"alternative"
]
},
{
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"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "capus",
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{
"form": "cabō",
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}
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"possibly"
],
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],
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{
"english": "“[I consider] my son Ascanius, and my wronging of his dear life’s summit, [how] I deprive him of his Hesperian kingdom and destined fields.”\n(Ascanius will become a legendary king and ancestor of the gens Julia.)",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.354–355",
"roman": "quem rēgnō Hesperiae fraudō et fātālibus arvīs.",
"text": "[…] mē puer Ascanius capitisque iniūria cārī,",
"translation": "“[I consider] my son Ascanius, and my wronging of his dear life’s summit, [how] I deprive him of his Hesperian kingdom and destined fields.”\n(Ascanius will become a legendary king and ancestor of the gens Julia.)",
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"point",
"point"
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[
"end",
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[
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[
"beginning",
"beginning#English"
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[
"end",
"end#English"
]
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"parents": [],
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{
"english": "now by some gentle river's sacred spring.",
"ref": "23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horatius, Carmina 1.1",
"text": "nunc ad aquae lēne caput sacrae.",
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}
],
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"source",
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[
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],
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"neuter"
]
},
{
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"parents": [],
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{
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{
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[
"branch",
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"vine branches"
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},
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"top",
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[
"tree",
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},
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[
"animal",
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"neuter"
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{
"english": "and by every sort of promises and rewards, they earnestly solicit some to begin the war, and assert the freedom of Gaul at the hazard of their lives.",
"ref": "c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico VII.1",
"text": "[…] omnibus pollicitationibus ac praemiis deposcunt qui belli initium faciant et sui capitis periculo Galliam in libertatem vindicent.",
"translation": "and by every sort of promises and rewards, they earnestly solicit some to begin the war, and assert the freedom of Gaul at the hazard of their lives.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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[
"life",
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"neuter"
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},
{
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"id": "en-caput-la-noun-Z5jMZ-t8",
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[
"political",
"political"
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[
"life",
"life"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative):",
"civil or political life"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"figuratively",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "7 7 2 11 2 18 2 2 2 2 2 28 2 11",
"kind": "other",
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}
],
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{
"english": "that my Rome shall be the capital of the world",
"ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 1.16",
"text": "ut mea Rōma caput orbis terrārum sit",
"translation": "that my Rome shall be the capital of the world",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "seeing that we acknowledge Rome to be the capital of Latium",
"ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 8.4",
"text": "quippe concēdentibus Rōmam caput Latiō esse",
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"type": "quotation"
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[
"chief",
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[
"guide",
"guide"
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[
"capital",
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[
"first",
"first#English"
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[
"chief",
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]
},
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"parents": [],
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],
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"division; section; paragraph; chapter."
],
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[
"writing",
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[
"division",
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[
"section",
"section"
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[
"paragraph",
"paragraph"
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[
"chapter",
"chapter"
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{
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{
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}
],
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[
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],
[
"body",
"body"
],
[
"bone",
"bone"
]
],
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],
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"neuter"
],
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"medicine",
"sciences"
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}
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"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.354–355",
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