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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kápros

Proto-Italic *kapros

Latin caper

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Italic *-ā

Latin -a

Latin capra

From caper (“billy goat, he-goat”) + -a (suffix forming feminine versions of nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.pra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.pra]

Noun

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

1. she-goat, nanny goat (a female goat)
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, 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.

	singular	plural
nominative	capra	caprae
genitive	caprae	caprārum
dative	caprae	caprīs
accusative	capram	caprās
ablative	caprā	caprīs
vocative	capra	caprae

Derived terms

• capella

Related terms

• caper
• caprārius
• caprea
• caprīnus
• capriō

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: caprã
  • Istro-Romanian: cåprĕ
  • Megleno-Romanian: capră
  • Romanian: capră
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: capra
  • Neapolitan: crapa
  • Sicilian: crapa
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: craba
• Northern Italian:
  • Istriot: càvara
  • Venetan: cavra, càora, càvara
  • Gallo-Italian:
    • Emilian: chèvra
    • Lombard: crava
    • Piedmontese: crava
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: cjavre
  • Ladin: cëura
  • Romansh: chaura, caura, tgora, chevra
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: chiévra
  • Oïl:
    • Old French: chievre, kievre
      • Middle French: chevre
        • French: chèvre
          • → English: chèvre; ⇒ chevon
      • Norman: quièvre
      • Picard: kiève, tchiève (Amiens)
      • Walloon: tchive
  • Oc:
    • Catalan: cabra
    • Old Occitan: cabra
      • Occitan: cabra, chabra, craba
        • → Franco-Provençal: cabra
• Ibero-Romance:
• Aragonese: craba, crapa
• Asturian: cabra
  • Old Portuguese:
    • Galician: cabra
    • Portuguese: cabra, cabrito, cabrita
      • → Old Tupi: kabará
      • Papiamentu: kabritu
      • Sranan Tongo: krabita
        • Aukan: kaabíta
        • Saramaccan: kaabíta
  • Spanish: cabra

• → Translingual: Capra
• → Etruscan: 𐌊𐌀𐌐𐌓𐌀 (kapra)

Further reading

• “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, 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