caporal

French

noun

Definitions

(military) corporal
caporal (tobacco)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian caporale (corporal, bossy person).

Origin

Italian (Fiorentino)

caporale

Gloss

corporal, bossy person

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

caporal English
caput Latin
corpus Latin
Korporal German
caporale Italian
caporalesco Italian
caporal Spanish, Castilian
korporal Norwegian Bokmål
korporal Norwegian Nynorsk
corporal Middle French