Word Origin Summary

Capra is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *káprosProto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• craba

  Occitan · inherited from

• căprui

  Romanian · inherited from

• chevra

  Romansch · inherited from

• Craparotta

  Italian · derived from

• cabra

  Catalan · inherited from

• kabritu

  Papiamento · derived from

• caprareccia

  Italian · inherited from

• caprid

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root