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/ka.pa.si.te/
Translation
capacity; ability
Word origin
From Latin capacitas ('roominess, ability to hold'), from capax ('able to hold much'), from capere ('to take, to hold'). The same Latin verb gives French capable and English capture.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- capacitas
- English cognates
- capacity, capable, capture
Grammar
Examples
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The hall has a capacity of three hundred people.
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She has a great capacity for work.
' marathon.
He no longer has the ability to run a marathon.
téraoctets.
This hard drive offers a capacity of two terabytes.
- .
Do not underestimate your ability to learn quickly.
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