caput

IPA: kʌpˈʊt

(anatomy) The head.
(anatomy) A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.
The top or superior part of a thing.
(UK) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
(medicine, colloquial) Ellipsis of caput succedaneum. [A neonatal condition involving a serosanguinous, subcutaneous, extraperiosteal fluid collection with poorly defined margins caused by the pressure of the presenting part of the scalp against the dilating cervix during delivery.]

Examples of "caput" in Sentences

In fact, the word capital comes from the Latin word caput, which means “head.”
The last wipeout, which few remember was 91-92 when all the money center banks were essentially caput.
In #10, *kap-ut gives Latin 'caput' and Germanic *hauβuð German 'Haupt, Dutch 'hoofd', OE 'heafod' Modern English 'head'.
Clearly the Latin "caput" for head is the root of the word but my recollection is that the imagery comes from a head of cattle.
The clue for reconstructing the original lines he found in the expression caput ecclesiæ, which he judged referred to St. Peter.
I wonder if the technical singular “head” is related to Latin caput, as catel indirectly is, or is that just a weird coincidence?
In the assessment or census, which was made by the Censors, the slaves were not numbered at all, being supposed to have no "caput," or "civil condition."
In fact, the word "capital" in the context of punishment was coined to describe execution by decapitation, derived from the Latin word caput, which means "head."
If the chair or other familiar object is broken, then it is still styled _putt_ (for "caput," gone to smash); and if the child has himself broken anything he scolds his own hand, and says _oi_ or
Christian spirit, are like salt that has lost its savour, like that which the chemists call the caput mortuum, that has all its salts drawn from it, that is the most useless worthless thing in the world; it has no manner of virtue or good property in it.