capis

capis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of capar

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to seize, grab”), the same root of capiō (“to grab”).

capis f (genitive capidis); third declension

1. A kind of bowl used in sacrifices

Third declension.

• capēdō

capis

1. second-person singular present active indicative of capiō

• capis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• capis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• capis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• capis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• capis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• capis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin