kapo

Borrowed from German Kapo, from Italian capo. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Wikipedia says this ety is uncertain and suggests several others.”)

kapo (plural kapos)

1. (historical) A prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was given food and privileges in return for supervising other prisoners doing forced labor.

• Pako-, poak

kapo

1. cuckoo

• IPA^(key): [ˈkapo]
• Rhymes: -apo
• Hyphenation: ka‧po

Borrowed from Italian capo, from Latin capus (“head”). Doublet of ĉapitro.

kapo (accusative singular kapon, plural kapoj, accusative plural kapojn)

1. (anatomy) head
   • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, "Proverbaro Esperanta":

     Kiom da kapoj, tiom da opinioj.

     However many heads, that many opinions.

• skeletkapo (“skull”)

From Ancient Greek κάππα (káppa, “the letter Κ”).

kapo (accusative singular kapon, plural kapoj, accusative plural kapojn)

1. kappa

• capo

From Italian capotasto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑpo/, [ˈkɑpo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑpo
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧po

kapo

1. (music) capotasto, capo

• pako, poka

Borrowed from German Kapo, from Italian capo.

• IPA^(key): /ka.po/

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kapo m (plural kapos)

1. (historical) kapo

• “kapo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

kapo (plural kapi)

1. head

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.pɔ/

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• Rhymes: -apɔ
• Syllabification: ka‧po

Borrowed from German Kapo, from Italian capo, from Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-.

kapo m pers (indeclinable) or kapo f (indeclinable)

1. (historical, Nazism) kapo (male or female)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kapo

1. vocative singular of kapa

• kapo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kapo in Polish dictionaries at PWN