capitão

See also: capitaõ and Capitão

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• capitam (obsolete)
• capitaõ (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese capitan, capitam, from Genoese Ligurian capitan, from Late Latin capitānus, from capitāneus, or from Latin capitālis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.piˈtɐ̃w̃/ [ka.piˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.piˈtɐ̃w̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
• Hyphenation: ca‧pi‧tão

Noun

capitão m (plural capitães, feminine capitã or capitoa, feminine plural capitãs or capitoas)

1. (military) captain (army officer rank)

Descendants

• → Gujarati: કપ્તાન (kaptān)
• → Japanese: カピタン (kapitan)
• → Malay: kapitan
  • Indonesian: kapitan
  • → Min Nan: 甲必丹 (kap-pit-tan, “captain”).

Further reading

• “capitão” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913