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''Caput'', a Latin word meaning literally "head" and by metonymy "top",〔Cassell's Latin Dictionary, revised by Marchant & Charles, 260th thousand〕 has been borrowed in a variety of English words, including capital, captain, and decapitate. The surname Caputo, common in the Campania region of Italy, comes from the appellation used by some Roman military generals. A variant form has surfaced more recently in the title ''Capo'' (or ''Caporegime''), the head of ''La Cosa Nostra''. The French language converted 'caput' into ''chief'', ''chef'', and ''chapitre'', later borrowed in English as ''chapter''. The central settlement in an Anglo-Saxon multiple estate was called a ''caput'',〔Michael Aston, ''Interpreting the Landscape'' (Routledge, reprinted 1998, page 34)〕 (short for ''caput baroniae'', see below). It was also the name of the council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856. ''Caput baronium'' is the seat of a barony in Scotland. ''Caput baroniae'' is the seat of an English feudal barony. (''Baronia'', nominative case of a feminine Latin noun, is correctly ''baroniae'' in the genitive.) ''Caput'' is also used in medicine to describe any head like protuberance on an organ or structure, such as the ''caput humeri''. In music, ''caput'' may refer to the ''Missa Caput'' or the plainsong melisma on which it is based. The German word ''kaput'' ("destroyed") is not related to this word, nor is the family name "Klaput." ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Caput」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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