Capito

From Latin capitō (“person with a large head”).

Capito m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Capitonidae – barbets of South America.

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

Two main origins:

• Borrowed from Italian Capito or Capitò, a reduced form of the personal name Agapito.
• Borrowed from German Capito, a Latinized form of the surnames Haupt or Kopf.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæpɪtoʊ/

Capito (plural Capitos)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Capito is the 38948^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 566 individuals. Capito is most common among White (76.5%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (11.48%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Capito”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 283.

• Topic A, atopic, picota, potica

From capitō (“person with a big head”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pi.toː/, [ˈkäpɪt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.pi.to/, [ˈkäːpit̪o]

Capitō m sg (genitive Capitōnis); third declension

1. A cognomen of the gens Ateia

   Gaius Ateius Capito

    

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Căpĭto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Capito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.