capitulate

See also: capitoulate

English

WOTD – 9 April 2007

Etymology

From the participle stem of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin capitulare (“draw up under headings”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin capitulum (“heading, chapter, title”), diminutive of caput (“head”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈpɪ.tjʊ.leɪt/, /kəˈpɪ.t͡ʃə.leɪt/
• IPA^(key): /kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jʊ.leɪt/, /kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jə.leɪt/

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Verb

1. (intransitive) To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.

   He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.

   • Macaulay

     The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
   • Heylin

     there capitulates with the king […] to take to wife his daughter Mary

Synonyms

• (surrender, end resistance, give up): wave the white flag

Related terms

• chapiter
• chapter
• capital

• capitalism
• captain
• capitulation

• capitulatory
• recapitulate

Translations

surrender; end all resistance; to give up; to go along with or comply

• Bulgarian: предавам се, капитулирам (bg) (kapituliram)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 投降 (zh) (tóuxiáng) (to surrender), 屈從／屈从 (zh) (qūcóng), 屈从 (zh) (qūcóng) (to submit/yield), 放棄／放弃 (zh) (fàngqì), 放弃 (zh) (fàngqì) (to give up)

• Esperanto: kapitulaci (eo)
• Finnish: antautua (fi), luovuttaa (fi), antaa periksi (fi)
• German: kapitulieren (de)
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• Greek: παραδίδομαι (el) (paradídomai), συνθηκολογώ (el) (synthikologó)
• Hungarian: megadja magát (hu), kapitulál (hu)
• Maori: hauraro, whakahauraro
• Polish: kapitulować, poddać się (pl)
• Portuguese: capitular (pt)
• Romanian: capitula (ro)
• Russian: капитули́ровать (ru) impf or pf (kapitulírovatʹ), сдава́ться (ru) impf (sdavátʹsja), сда́ться (ru) impf (sdátʹsja)
• Swedish: kapitulera (sv), ge upp (sv), resignera (sv)