The Latin word for head is
caput
Translations for head and their definitions
| 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. |
| praepositus | |
| 1. Participle. placed in front | |
| 2. Participle. placed in command | |
| 3. n. One placed in command: a commander, a leader, particularly: | |
| 4. n. A prefect. | |
| 5. n. A chief, a head. | |
| 6. n. An overseer. | |
| 7. n. A president. | |
| 8. n. (Medieval Latin) A provost. | |
| 9. n. (Medieval Latin) A reeve. |
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