even more caput (before Melissa cuts it)

[maay100@bgumail.bgu.ac.il (Quastel)]

Re Caput (head):  see also capitol, capital, cap, captain, caption, cape
(e.g. of Good Hope) and caput mortuum (dead head).

        Mike Quastel


>>In German caput(kaput) is a total end, death, finish, etc.
>Same meaning in Swedish (spelling: "kaputt" - for instance
>about a machine or apparatus that no longer works).
>The word occurs in many forms in European languages. The
>Spanish for head is - if I remember right - cabeza
>(uncertain about spelling - sure there are people here who
>know Spanish). In Portuguese, it is cabeca (there should be
>lower, special sign on the last "c" like you see in French
>also). In France, head is tÍte, but somebody who is mad/crazy
>is referred to as "caput".
>The latin "caput" in medicine is general and not only restricted
>in use to our "brain" part. The head of the femoral bone for
>instance is "caput femoralis" or something like it.
>It may occur in Russian also - I am not sure but have heard
>the word and name "kapitsa".
>
>Bjorn
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