| Latin > English |
|
| caput |
| 1. n. (of human and animals) The head. |
| 2. n. (poetic) The head as the seat of the understanding. |
| 3. n. (transferred sense) (of inanimate things): |
| 4. n. (in general) The head, top, summit, point, end, extremity (beginning or end). |
| 5. n. (of rivers) The origin, source, spring (head). |
| 6. n. (rare) (of rivers) The mouth, embouchure. |
| 7. n. (botany, sometimes) The root. |
| 8. n. Vine branches. |
| 9. n. (poetic) (of trees) The summit, top. |
| 10. n. (literature) A man, person, or animal. |
| 11. n. (figurative): |
| 12. n. Physical life. |
| 13. n. Civil or political life. |
| 14. n. (very, frequently) The first or chief person or thing; the head, leader, chief, guide, capital. |
| 15. n. (writing) A division, section, paragraph, chapter. |
| 16. n. (New Latin, anatomy) A headlike protuberance on an organ or body part, usually bone. |
| caput ulnae - head of the ulna |
| 17. n. (New Latin, disease) A disease; a severe swelling of the soft tissues of a newborn's scalp that develops as the baby travels through the birth canal. |
