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/ka.pi.tal/
Translation
capital city
Word origin
From Latin capitalis ('of the head'), from caput ('head'). A capitale ville is literally the country's 'head city'. English capital, capitol and decapitate share the same root.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- caput
- English cognates
- capital, capitol, decapitate
Grammar
Examples
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Paris is the capital of France.
Madrid Lisbonne l'Espagne Portugal.
Madrid and Lisbon are the capitals of Spain and Portugal.
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The capital has changed a great deal since my childhood.
Mind the gender switch: (feminine) is a capital city, but capital (masculine) is capital in the financial sense (money, assets). Same spelling family, different word, different gender, different meaning.
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