capitão

See also: capitaõ and Capitão

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese capitan, capitam, from Genoese Ligurian capitan, from Late Latin capitānus, from capitāneus, or from Latin capitālis.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.piˈtɐ̃w̃/ [ka.piˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

  • Audio (Portugal, Porto):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
  • Hyphenation: ca‧pi‧tão

Noun

capitão m (plural capitães, feminine capitã or (rare) capitoa, feminine plural capitãs or (rare) capitoas)

  1. (military) captain (army officer rank)
  2. (Brazil, colloquial, used in the vocative) A term of address for someone
    Synonyms: amigo, chefe, major, grande, jogador

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Gujarati: કપ્તાન (kaptān)
  • → Japanese: カピタン (kapitan)
  • → Malay: kapitan

References

  1. ^ Salmon Claudine. Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges. In: Archipel, volume 78, 2009. pp. 181-208

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