capite

From Latin caput (“head”).

capite (plural capites)

1. (historical) An ancient English tenure, abolished in 1660, by which either person or land was held immediately of the king, or of his crown, by either knight service or socage.

• Homophones: capitent, capites

capite

1. inflection of capiter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

capite (plural capites)

1. head

capite f pl

1. feminine plural of capito

capite

1. inflection of capire:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

capite n

1. ablative singular of caput (“head”)

capite

1. second-person plural present active imperative of capiō

• "capite", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

capite

1. inflection of capitar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative