CAPITANO

Etymology

Noun

capitano (plural capitanos or capitanoes)

A head man.

one of the four stock characters of commedia dell'arte who typically appropriated the name "captain" for himself but was not one; he was often a blowhard and a swaggerer who could maintain his self-important claims only if none of the locals know him

Anagrams

• capotain, copatain, pacation

Source: Wiktionary



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EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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