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caput

“caput” is a Latin word. Its 17 meanings in English:

  1. The head. (of human and animals)
  2. The head as the seat of the understanding.
  3. (of inanimate things)
  4. (of inanimate things):
  5. The head, top, summit, point, end, extremity (beginning or end).
  6. The origin, source, spring (head). (of rivers)
  7. The mouth, embouchure.
  8. The root.
  9. Vine branches.
  10. (of trees) The summit, top.
  11. A man, person, or animal.
  12. Physical life.
  13. Civil or political life.
  14. The first or chief person or thing; the head, leader, chief, guide, capital.
  15. A division, section, paragraph, chapter.
  16. A headlike protuberance on an organ or body part, usually bone.
  17. A disease; a severe swelling of the soft tissues of a newborn's scalp that develops as the baby travels through the birth canal.
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