capa
Portuguese
/ˈka.pɐ/
noun
Definitions
- cloak; cape long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back
- (printing) cover front and back of a book or magazine
- the front cover or front page of a publication
- jacket protective or insulating cover for an object
- (bullfighting) cape cloth used by a bullfighter to trick the bull
- (figurative) cloak a false pretext or appearance
- (geology) a top layer of rock
- wrapper outer layer of a cigar
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese capa inherited from Latin cappa (cape, cloak, coat, sleeveless coat).
Origin
Latin
cappa
Gloss
cape, cloak, coat, sleeveless coat
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
崎
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cappa English
- *cappellus Latin
- *excappāre Latin
- *excappō Latin
- *excappō, *excappāre Latin
- capellus Latin
- cappa Latin
- cappella Latin
- cappellus Latin
- caput Latin
- ex- Latin
- cappa Italian
- cappello Italian
- cappuccino Italian
- cape French
- chape French
- kappe Norwegian Bokmål
- capear Portuguese
- capeta Portuguese
- capetagem Portuguese
- contra Portuguese
- contracapa Portuguese
- socapa Portuguese
- カッパ Japanese
- 合羽 Japanese
- cæppe Old English
- capote Old French
- chape Old French
- capa Galician
- κάπα Greek (modern)
- kappa Old High German
- cába Old Irish
- capa Old Portuguese
- kappe Middle Low German
- kappa Old Swedish
- capiala Romansh
- chapella Romansh
- tgapeala Romansh
- tgapela Romansh
- capa Old Occitan
- kapa Lower Sorbian
- capa Old Spanish
- kapa Yami