capitão

See also: capitaõ and Capitão

Portuguese

Alternative forms

capitam (obsolete)
capitaõ (obsolete)

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]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.piˈtɐ̃w̃/

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

Noun

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

(military) captain (army officer rank)

Descendants

→ Gujarati: કપ્તાન (kaptān)
→ Japanese: カピタン (kapitan)
→ Malay: kapitan
- Indonesian: kapitan
- → Min Nan: 甲必丹 (kap-pit-tan, “captain”).[1]

References

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

Further reading

“capitão” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

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