capa

See also: Capa, CAPA, càpa, cápa, capá, capà, capã, capă, çapa, and сара

English

Etymology

Spanish capa. Doublet of cape and cappa.

Noun

capa (countable and uncountable, plural capas)

1. (countable) A Spanish cloak.
2. (uncountable) Fine Cuban tobacco for the outsides of cigars.

Anagrams

• AACP, ACPA, APAC, APCA, CAAP, PAAc, paca

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Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin cappa. Compare Occitan capa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈka.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈka.pa]

• Rhymes: -apa

Noun

capa f (plural capes)

1. layer

   Al Photoshop s'usen diferents capes per tractar la imatge.

   In Photoshop different layers are used to work with images.

   La capa d'ozó està en perill.

   The ozone layer is endangered.

2. film, skin (layer that forms on the top of certain liquids)

   Synonym: tel

3. coat (of paint)

   Synonym: mà

4. cape

   El duc portava una capa molt maca.

   The duke was wearing a very beautiful cape.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• aguantar la capa (hold the cape) = to be with a couple, disturbing them in flirting
• anar de capa caiguda (to go with fallen cape) = to have a bad season

• capejar
• de capa i espasa (about cape and sword) = a fictional genre about wars, cavalry and old times

Derived terms

• caperó

Related terms

• capell
• capella
• escapar

Further reading

• “capa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “capa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.pa/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: capas, capât

Verb

capa

1. third-person singular past historic of caper

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Galician

Galician traditional mill

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese capa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin cappa. Cognate with Galician capa and Spanish capa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkapa̝/

Noun

capa f (plural capas)

1. cloak, cape
2. runner stone (upper, mobile millstone)
3. each one of the flagstones which tops a wall
4. layer

   Ese ten máis capas que unha cebola. ― That guy has more layers than an onion.

Related terms

• capela
• capelo
• caparucha
• chapeu
• pucha
• pucho

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “capa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “capa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “capa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “capa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “capa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Italian

Etymology

From a southern dialectal form of capo (“head”), from Latin caput. Compare Neapolitan, Sicilian, Tarantino capa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.pa/
• Rhymes: -apa
• Hyphenation: cà‧pa

Noun

capa f (plural cape)

1. head

   Synonyms: capo, testa

Noun

capa f (plural cape)

1. (often humorous) female equivalent of capo (“boss”)
2. Alternative form of kappa

Anagrams

• paca

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Latin

Alternative forms

• cappa

Etymology

From earlier (Late Latin) cappa.

Noun

capa m (genitive capae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a cape

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	capa	capae
genitive	capae	capārum
dative	capae	capīs
accusative	capam	capās
ablative	capā	capīs
vocative	capa	capae

References

• capa 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)

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Malay

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ca‧pa

Noun

capa (Jawi spelling چاڤ, plural capa-capa, informal 1st possessive capaku, 2nd possessive capamu, 3rd possessive capanya)

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Further reading

• “capa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin caput.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkapɐ/

Noun

capa f (plural cape)

1. head (the part of the body containing the brain)

   Teneva nu cappiello janco ncapa.

   They were wearing a white hat on their head.

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Polish

Noun

capa m anim

1. genitive/accusative singular of cap

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.pɐ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -apɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧pa

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese capa, from Late Latin cappa.

Noun

capa f (plural capas)

1. cloak; cape (long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back)
2. (printing) cover (front and back of a book or magazine)
3. the front cover or front page of a publication
4. jacket (protective or insulating cover for an object)
5. (bullfighting) cape (cloth used by a bullfighter to trick the bull)
6. (figurative) cloak (a false pretext or appearance)
7. (geology) a top layer of rock
8. wrapper (outer layer of a cigar)
9. (colloquial) condom

Derived terms

• contracapa
• socapa

Related terms

• capela
• capelo
• escapar

Descendants

• Japanese: 合羽
• Kadiwéu: caapa

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Late Latin cappa, from Ancient Greek κάππα (káppa), from Phoenician 𐤊𐤐 (kp /⁠kaph⁠/), from Proto-Semitic *kapp- (“palm, hand”).

Noun

capa m (plural capas)

1. (Portugal) kay (name of the Latin letter K, k)

   Synonym: (Brazil) cá

2. kappa (name of the Greek letter Κ, κ)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

capa

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Sicilian

Alternative forms

• capu

Etymology

From older capu, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkapa/
• Hyphenation: ca‧pa

Noun

capa f (plural capi)

1. (anatomy) head

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Spanish

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish capa, from Late Latin cappa. Cognate with English cape and cope (“priestly vestment”). Compare English coping (“top layer of a brick wall”) for an English comparable semantic sense of a "layer".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkapa/ [ˈka.pa]
• Hyphenation: ca‧pa

Noun

capa f (plural capas)

1. cloak, cape (a sleeveless garment hanging from the neck)
2. coat, sheet (a covering of material, such as paint)
3. layer (a single thickness of some material covering a surface)
4. guise; pretext

Derived terms

• a capa y espada
• a so capa
• capa anual
• capa de hielo
• capa de ozono
• capear
• Caperucita Roja
• de capa caída
• estar de capa caída
• hacer de su capa un sayo
• la noche es capa de pecadores

 

Related terms

• capilla
• capillo
• escapar

Descendants

• → English: capa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

capa

1. inflection of capar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “capa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

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Tarantino

Etymology

From Latin caput. Compare Neapolitan and Sicilian capa.

Noun

capa

1. head