カピタン

Japanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Portuguese capitam (“captain”), from Old Galician-Portuguese capitan, capitam, from Genoese Ligurian capitan, from Late Latin capitānus, capitāneus, or Latin capitālis. Compare Malay kapitan. Doublet of 甲比丹 and カピテン (kapiten).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) カピタン [káꜜpìtàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ka̠pʲitã̠ɴ]

Noun

カピタン • (kapitan) 

  1. a captain of a foreign ship from Europe to Japan in the Edo period
  2. VOC Opperhoofden in Japan; a chief trader of the Dutch East India Company during the Edo Period
  3. a kind of striped brocade weave that originated from foreign traders at the end of the Muromachi period
    Synonym: カピタン織 (kapitan-ori)

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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