Capo meaning

kā'pō
The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
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A small movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar or similar instrument so as to raise the pitch of all the strings uniformly.
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A device clamped across the fingerboard as of a guitar to raise the pitch of the strings uniformly and thereby facilitate playing in a different key.
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A chieftain in a criminal organization such as the Mafia.
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A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.
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A leader in the Mafia; a caporegime.
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Origin of capo

  • Italian capo (di tastiera) head (of the fingerboard) from Latin caput kaput- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Italian from Latin caput head capo1
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Capo Sentence Examples

  • The northern extremity of the Nurra, the Capo del Falcone, is continued to .the N.N.E.

  • To the south of Terranova there is no harbour of any importance on the east coast (the Gulf of Orosei being exposed to the E., and shut in by a precipitous coast) until Tortoli is reached, and beyond that to the Capo Carbonara at the south-east extremity, and again along the south coast, there is no harbour before Cagliari, the most important on the island.

  • of the Capo Miseno, the nearest point of the mainland.

  • At Le Grotte, between Portoferraio and Rio dell' Elba, and at Capo Castello, on the N.E.

  • The Crati, which flows from Cosenza northwards, and then turns abruptly eastward to enter the same gulf, is the only stream worthy of notice in the rugged peninsula of Calabria; while the arid limestone hills projecting eastwards to Capo di Leuca do not give rise to anything more than a mere streamlet, from the mouth of the Ofanto to the south-eastern extremity of Italy.

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