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caput mortuum

/ˈkæpət ˈmɔː(ɹ)tjʊəm/

caput mortuum noun: worthless residue of sublimation or distillation.

Noun

caput mortuum (uncountable)

  1. Worthless residue of sublimation or distillation.
  2. Cardinal purple, a variety of haematite iron oxide pigment.
    • Were they working their way through the colours and now had reached the more abstruse layers of the spectrum? What would be next — caput mortuum, heliotrope? The colours of the day.2018, Kate Atkinson, Transcription, page 227

caput mortuum meaning in Tamil

caput mortuum in Tamil

கசடு, அடிமண்டி

Origin of caput mortuum

Unadapted borrowing from Latin caput mortuum (literally “dead head”).

Questions about caput mortuum

What does caput mortuum mean?
Caput mortuum means worthless residue of sublimation or distillation.
What is caput mortuum in Tamil?
Caput mortuum in Tamil is கசடு, அடிமண்டி. See Caput mortuum meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is caput mortuum?
Caput mortuum is a noun.
How do you pronounce caput mortuum?
Caput mortuum is pronounced /ˈkæpət ˈmɔː(ɹ)tjʊəm/.

Words near caput mortuum in the dictionary

  1. capuramycin
  2. capuramycins
  3. capuride
  4. Capuseran
  5. caput
  6. caput mortuum
  7. caput succedaneum
  8. caputegulae
  9. caputegulum
  10. Caputo
  11. Caputoan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caput mortuum (page history and authors); caput mortuum (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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