caput

American  

[key-puht, kap-uht] / ˈkeɪ pət, ˈkæp ət /

noun

Anatomy.

plural

capita

1. any head or headlike expansion on a structure, as on a bone.

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caput British  

/ ˈkæp-, ˈkeɪpət /

noun

1. anatomy a technical name for the head

2. the main or most prominent part of an organ or structure

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Etymology

Origin of caput

1640–50; < Latin: head

Example Sentences

Greenland has more than three times as many hospital beds per capita as Louisiana, with 14 beds per 1,000 inhabitants, according to the World Bank.

From The Wall Street Journal

By the early 1960s, its per capita economic output was higher than Japan’s.

From The Wall Street Journal

So that’s why the word “malaise” prompted this, not a rebuttal, but let’s not only think in terms of GDP growth, GDP per capita, market capitalization.

From The Wall Street Journal

To describe real per capita gross domestic product growth in the EU as strong since 2009 would be generous and far from accurate; it has hardly grown.

From The Wall Street Journal

The rate of losses was smallest in major cities, with Moscow having the least deaths per capita - five people for every 10,000 males, or 0.05%.

From BBC