capra

See also: Capra, capră, and caprã

Italian

Etymology

From Latin capra, from its masculine version caper, from Proto-Italic *kapros, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.pra/
• Rhymes: -apra
• Hyphenation: cà‧pra

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Noun

capra f (plural capre, masculine capro)

1. goat (a mammal)
2. she-goat (a female goat, a nanny goat)
3. trestle, sawhorse

Related terms

• capraio
• caprareccia
• capretta
• caprettina
• caprice
• capricorn
• caprino
• capriolo
• capro
• caprone
• formaggio di capra
• latte di capra

 

See also

• becco

Anagrams

• carpa, parca

Latin

Etymology

From caper (“billy goat, he-goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”); see also Old Norse hafr (“he-goat”), Old English hæfer, Welsh gafr, Old Irish gabor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pra/, [ˈkäprä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pra/, [ˈkäːprä]

Noun

capra f (genitive caprae, masculine caper); first declension

1. she-goat (a female goat, a nanny goat)
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.443–444:

     stat quoque capra simul [...] īnfantī lac dēdit illa Iovī.

     Also together [with him] stands a she-goat [...] that gave her milk to the infant Jove.
     (Ovid refers to mythology about the baby Jupiter/Iuppiter or Zeus having been suckled by a goat, or the goddess Amalthea; see Amalthea (mythology).)

2. the odor of armpits

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	capra	caprae
Genitive	caprae	caprārum
Dative	caprae	caprīs
Accusative	capram	caprās
Ablative	caprā	caprīs
Vocative	capra	caprae

Derived terms

• caprārius
• caprīnus
• capriō
• capella

 

Related terms

• capella
• caper
• caprea

 

Descendants

• Aragonese: craba, crapa
• Aromanian: caprã
• Asturian: cabra
• → Etruscan: 𐌊𐌀𐌐𐌓𐌀 (kapra)
• Franco-Provençal: chiévra
• Friulian: cjavre
• Istriot: càvara
• Italian: capra
• Ladin: cëura
• Lombard: crava
• Neapolitan: crapa
• Old French: chievre, kievre
  • Middle French: chevre
    • French: chèvre
      • → English: chèvre; ⇒ chevon
  • Norman: quièvre
  • Picard: kiève, tchiève (Amiens)
  • Walloon: tchive
• Old Occitan: cabra
  • Catalan: cabra
  • Occitan: cabra, chabra, craba
    • → Franco-Provençal: cabra
• Old Portuguese:
  • Galician: cabra
  • Portuguese: cabra
• Romanian: capră
• Romansch: chaura, caura, tgora, chevra
• Sardinian: craba
• Sicilian: crapa
• Spanish: cabra
• → Translingual: Capra
• Venetian: cavra, càora, càvara

References

• “capra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “capra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• capra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• capra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “capra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Noun

capra f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of capră