capra

From Latin capra, from its masculine version caper, from Proto-Italic *kapros, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.pra/
• Rhymes: -apra
• Hyphenation: cà‧pra

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capra f (plural capre, masculine capro)

1. goat (a mammal)
2. she-goat (a female goat, a nanny goat)
3. trestle, sawhorse

• becco

• carpa, parca

From caper (“billy goat, he-goat”) +‎ -a (suffix forming feminine versions of nouns).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.pra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.pra]

capra f (genitive caprae, masculine caper); first declension

1. she-goat, nanny goat (a female goat)
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.443–444:

     stat quoque capra simul [...] īnfantī lac dēdit illa Iovī.

     Also together [with him] stands a she-goat [...] that gave her milk to the infant Jove.
     (Ovid refers to mythology about the baby Jupiter/Iuppiter or Zeus having been suckled by a goat, or the goddess Amalthea; see Amalthea (mythology).)

2. the odor of armpits

First-declension noun.

• “capra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “capra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "capra", 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)
• capra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “capra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

capra f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of capră