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capto, captare, captavi, captatus Latin verb, try, long, or aim for, desire; entice; hunt legacy; try to catch,<br />

grasp, seize, or reach.<br />

capucinus orange-red like the flowers of Tropaelum, nasturtium<br />

capul- Latin capulus, a handle; a tomb, sepulchre, coffin.<br />

capulum, capuli n., capulus, capuli m. Latin sword-hilt, or handle; handle of other implements; bier,<br />

coffin; sepulcher, tomb, scacophagus; halter for catching or fastening cattle, a lasso.<br />

capulatus -a -um from capulus -i m. a coffin, a handle, esp. the hilt of a sword, and -atus, adjectival suffix<br />

for nouns, noting possessive of or likeness of something, as in <strong>with</strong>, -shaped, -made.<br />

capulatus -a -um classical Latin adjective, hooded.<br />

caput- Latin caput, caputis, a head, used in compound words.<br />

caput-medusae Medusa's head<br />

capyro- Greek καπυρος, kapyros, dry, dried by the air, brittle, crisp, crackly (sound).<br />

car- Latin dear, loved<br />

car-, cara, -cara Greek καρα, kara, the head, the head of animals; peak, top.<br />

car-, carex, -carex, caric Latin carex, caricis, a sedge, a rush.<br />

Clarkia honoring General William Clark, companion of Merriwether Lewis crossing the Rocky Mountains.<br />

(Onargaceae)<br />

car- Latin carus -a -um, beloved, dear, costly.<br />

carab-, carabus, -carabus Greek καραβος, karabos, a kind of horned beetle, prickly crustacean or crayfish; a<br />

light ship; a gate.<br />

carabus, carabi m. Latin crustacean, crayfish; sea crab; small wicker boat covered in rawhide.<br />

carabus, carabi m. Latin scarabe; modern Latin coleopteron, beetle.<br />

caracasanus from Caracas in Venezuela<br />

Caragana Modern Latin from a Mongolian name; alternately of Turkic origin (OED).<br />

caramanicus from Caramania (or Karamania) in southern Asia Minor<br />

caran-, carang, caranx New Latin, carangue, from Spanish(?), a flatfish. Carangidae.<br />

carano- Greek καρανος, karanos, a chief.<br />

carapac- French carapace, Spanish carapacho, a covering, shield, from medieval Latin capara, a hood, from<br />

Latin capa, a hood.<br />

carb-, carbo-, carbon Latin carbo, carbonis coal.<br />

carbas- Latin carbasus, carbasi, flax, or fine (Spanish) flax, linen cloth; cambric; canvas; curtains, sails,<br />

linen garments, awning.<br />

carbasus, carbasi f. heteroclite plural carbasa -orum n., flax; meton., anything made of flax, e.g. garments,<br />

curtains, sails.<br />

carbo, carbonis m. Latin burning or burnt wood; charcoal; glowing coal; pencil or marker; worthless thing;<br />

charred remains; coal.<br />

carbonaceus black like charcoal<br />

carc-, carcer, carcera Latin carcer, carceris, a prison, in prison, jail, a cell.<br />

carc- Greek καρις, karis, shrimp, prawn.<br />

carcer, carceris m. Latin prison, jail, cell; a jail bird; in plural, carceres, the starting-barriers of a racecourse,<br />

traps; begining.<br />

carchaleo- Greek καρχαλεος, karchaleos, rough, fierce.<br />

carchar-, carcharo Greek καρχαρος, karcharos, saw-like, sharp-pointed, jagged, hence a type of shark (a<br />

name for the species or genus of several sharks).<br />

carcharus, carchari m. Latin a fish (kind of); kind of dog fish.<br />

carcin-, carcino, carcinus, -carcinus Greek καρκινος, karkinos, a crab; a kind of shoe, an ulcer or cancer.<br />

carcinoma, carcinomat- Greek cancer; an ulcer. “From Classical Latin carcinōma, an ulcer or tumor, from<br />

ancient Greek καρκίνωµα, karkinoma, sore or ulcer, cancer, from καρκινοῦν, karkinoun, to make crab-like, (in<br />

passive i.e. καρκινοῦθαι, karkinouthai, to suffer from cancer, to be cancerous, from καρκίνος, karkinos, crab,<br />

sign of the Zodiac, sore or ulcer, cancer, from the same I.E. base as classical Latin cancer, and the I.E. bade of<br />

-ινος, -inos, and -µα, -ma. According to Paulus Aegineta (Epitomae Medicae 6. 45. 1), the tumour (ancient<br />

Greek καρκίνος ) was so called because the swollen veins surrounding the part affected bore a resemblance to<br />

the limbs of a crab (ancient Greek καρκίνος).” (OED)<br />

card-, cardi, cardia, -cardia, cardio referring to a heart, from Greek καρδια, kardia, the heart.<br />

card-, cardin-, cardo, -cardo Latin cardo, cardinis, a hinge, pivot; crisis.<br />

card- Greek καρδια, kardia, stomach, ‘cardiac orifice of the stomach”, (poetical) heart.

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