# capra
## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin capra, from its masculine version caper, from Proto-Italic *kapros, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.pra/
* Rhymes: -apra
* Hyphenation: cà‧pra
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

capra f (plural capre, masculine capro)
* goat (a mammal)
* she-goat (a female goat, a nanny goat)
* trestle, sawhorse

#### Related terms

* capraio
* caprareccia
* capretta
* caprettina
* caprice
* capricorn
* caprino
* capriolo
* capro
* caprone
* formaggio di capra
* latte di capra

### See also

* becco

### Anagrams

* carpa, parca

## Latin
### Etymology

From căpĕr (“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.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈka.pra/, [ˈkäprä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈka.pra/, [ˈkäːprä]

### Noun

capra f (genitive caprae, masculine căpĕr); first declension
* she-goat, nanny goat (a female goat)
** 8 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).)
* the odor of armpits

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* capella
* caprārius
* caprīnus
* capriō

#### Related terms

* capella
* caper
* caprea

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: caprã
** Istro-Romanian: cåprĕ
** Megleno-Romanian: capră
** Romanian: capră
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: capra
** Neapolitan: crapa
** Sicilian: crapa
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: craba
* Northern Italian:
** Istriot: càvara
** Venetan: cavra, càora, càvara
** Gallo-Italian:
*** Lombard: crava
*** Piedmontese: crava
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: cjavre
** Ladin: cëura
** Romansch: chaura, caura, tgora, chevra
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: chiévra
** Oïl:
*** Old French: chievre, kievre
**** Middle French: chevre
***** French: chèvre
****** → English: chèvre; ⇒ chevon
**** Norman: quièvre
**** Picard: kiève, tchiève (Amiens)
**** Walloon: tchive
** Oc:
*** Catalan: cabra
*** Old Occitan: cabra
**** Occitan: cabra, chabra, craba
***** → Franco-Provençal: cabra
* Ibero-Romance:
* Aragonese: craba, crapa
* Asturian: cabra
** Old Portuguese:
*** Galician: cabra
*** Portuguese: cabra
** Spanish: cabra
* → Translingual: Capra
* → Etruscan: 𐌊𐌀𐌐𐌓𐌀 (kapra)

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “caper, -rī (> Derivatives > capra)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 89

### Further reading

* “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

## Romanian
### Noun

capra f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of capră