capax

Derived from capiō (“I hold, contain, am large enough for”) +‎ -āx (“inclined to”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.paːks/, [ˈkäpäːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.paks/, [ˈkäːpäks]

capāx (genitive capācis, comparative capācior, superlative capācissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. That can contain or hold much; wide, large, spacious, capacious, roomy.
2. Susceptible, capable of, able, apt, fit for.

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• (capable, apt): appositus, aptus, habilis, idōneus, potēns, potis
• (spacious): amplus, laxus, magnus, spatiōsus, lātus

• (antonym(s) of “capable of”): incapāx

• capācitās
• capāciter

• “capax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “capax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• capax 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)
• capax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.