capra

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from caper, 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 (mammal)
2. nanny goat
3. trestle

• becco

• carpa, parca

From caper (“billy goat, he-goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”); see also Old Norse hafr (“he-goat”), Old English hæfer, Welsh gafr, Old Irish gabor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pra/, [ˈkäprä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pra/, [ˈkäːprä]

capra f (genitive caprae); first declension

1. a she-goat
   • 43 BCE – c. 17 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

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• capella
• caper
• caprea

• “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