Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe head. · A knob-like protuberance or capitulum. · The top or superior part of a thing. · The head, the leader or chief of a geoup of people.
Learned borrowing from Latin caput (“the head”). Doublet of cape, capo, chef, and chief, and distantly of head and Howth.
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