caput
Americannoun
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capita
plural
noun
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anatomy a technical name for the head
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the main or most prominent part of an organ or structure
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of caput
1640–50; < Latin: head
Example Sentences
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I think his royal career is pretty well caput.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2021
By day’s end Cole was shelled for seven runs and the Yankees season is essentially caput after a final score of 11-1.
From Fox News ● Sep. 19, 2021
Zeijdel says that Roald Smeets acquired the Tower Records brand back in 2007, in an auction after the original Tower went caput.
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2021
Which means, with a majority of 246, any would-be speaker can’t lose more than 28 votes or they’re caput.
From Time ● Oct. 4, 2015
Have we taken to good heart the divine record of love, of faith, which an æsthetic age has sublimated into credos, and left actions as a caput mortuum?
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
Colombia’s fertility rate is at 1.01 and Brazil 1.52 even though both have “a fraction of U.S. per capita income.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
The country's per capita GDP - around $667 in 2024, according to the UN - is a small fraction of South Korea's $36,227.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
In comparison Rwanda, despite its economic boom, remains a low-income country with a GDP per capita barely exceeding $1,100.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Researchers at Brown estimated the typical household’s increased cost for each state by looking at both per capita gas consumption and the increase in local prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Icelanders read more books per capita than any other people on the globe, and—like the Russians—they almost all play chess.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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