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capitanos

capitanos is the plural of capitano.

Meaning of capitano

Noun

capitano (plural capitanos or capitanoes or capitani)

  1. A head man.
  2. 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 knew him.

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Proper noun capitalized: Capitanos

Capitanos

  1. (plural) plural of Capitano

Questions about capitanos

What is capitanos the plural of?
Capitanos is the plural of capitano.
What part of speech is capitanos?
Capitanos is a proper noun.

Words near capitanos in the dictionary

  1. capitania
  2. Capitanian
  3. capitanias
  4. capitano
  5. capitanoes
  6. capitanos
  7. capitans
  8. Capitans China
  9. capitate
  10. capitate bone
  11. capitate bones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: capitanos (page history and authors); Capitanos (page history and authors); capitano (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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