capite

Latin caput (“head”)

capite (plural capites)

1. (historical) An ancient English tenure, abolished in 1660, by which either person or land was held immediately of the king, or of his crown, by either knight service or socage.

• Homophones: capitent, capites

capite

1. first-person singular present indicative of capiter
2. third-person singular present indicative of capiter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of capiter
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of capiter
5. second-person singular imperative of capiter

capite (plural capites)

1. head

capite f pl

1. feminine plural of capito

capite

1. second-person plural present indicative of capire
2. second-person plural imperative of capire

capite

1. ablative singular of caput

capite

1. second-person plural present active imperative of capiō

• capite in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)