decapitate

English

Etymology

From French décapiter, from Late Latin decapitare, from de- + caput.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dɪˈkapɪteɪt/

Verb

decapitate (third-person singular simple present decapitates, present participle decapitating, simple past and past participle decapitated)

1. (transitive) To remove the head of.

Synonyms

• behead
• decollate

Antonyms

• recapitate

Translations

remove the head of

• Arabic: ضَرَبَ عُنُقَهُ (ar) (ḍáraba ʿúnuqahu)
• Bulgarian: обезглавявам (bg) (obezglavjávam)
• Catalan: decapitar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (informal) 砍頭 (cmn), 砍头 (cmn) (kǎntóu), (formal) 斬首 (cmn), 斩首 (cmn) (zhǎnshǒu)

• Danish: halshugge (da)
• Dutch: onthoofden (nl)
• Finnish: katkaista kaula (+ ablative); (as in an execution, carried out by an authority) mestata
• French: décapiter (fr)
• German: enthaupten (de), köpfen (de)
• Greek: αποκεφαλίζω (el) (apokefalízo)

• Italian: decapitare (it)
• Japanese: (phrase) 首をはねる (ja) (くびをはねる, kubi o haneru), 打ち首にする (ja) (うちくびにする, uchikubi ni suru)
• Korean: 목을 베다 (ko) (mog-eul beda)
• Macedonian: обезглавува (mk) (obezglávuva)
• Malay: pancung (ms)
• Norwegian: halshugge (no), halshogge (no)
• Persian: گردن زدن (fa) (gardan zadan)
• Russian: обезглавливать (ru) (obezglávlivatʹ) impf., обезглавить (ru) (obezglávitʹ) pf.
• Slovene: obglaviti (sl)
• Spanish: decapitar (es)
• Thai: ตัดศีรษะ (th) (dtàt sĕe-sà)
• Vietnamese: chặt đầu (vi), chém đầu (vi)

Derived terms

• decapitation

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Italian

Verb form

decapitate

1. second-person plural present tense and imperative of decapitare