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capra

See also: Capra, capră, and caprã

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Etymology

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From Latin capra, from its masculine version caper, from Proto-Italic *kapros, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈka.pra/
  • Rhymes: -apra
  • Hyphenation: cà‧pra
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Noun

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capra f (plural capre, masculine capro)

  1. goat (a mammal)
  2. she-goat (a female goat, a nanny goat)
  3. trestle, sawhorse
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Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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From caper (“billy goat, he-goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”); see also Old Norse hafr (“he-goat”), Old English hæfer, Welsh gafr, Old Irish gabor.[1]

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Noun

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capra f (genitive caprae, masculine caper); first declension

  1. she-goat, nanny goat (a female goat)
  2. the odor of armpits

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative capra caprae
genitive caprae caprārum
dative caprae caprīs
accusative capram caprās
ablative caprā caprīs
vocative capra caprae

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “caper, -rī (> Derivatives > capra)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 89

Further reading

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  • “capra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “capra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • capra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • capra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “capra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

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Noun

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capra f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of capră
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