SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY: CAPITULATE

SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY:      CAPITULATE

 

PRONUNCIATION:

(kuh-PICH-uh-layt)

MEANING:.

(verb) intr.: To cease resisting; surrender.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin capitulare (to draw up under headings [the articles of agreement]), from capitulum (little head, chapter), from caput (head). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kaput- (head), also the origin of head, captain, chef, chapter, cadet, cattle, chattel, achieve, biceps, mischief, and occiput, (but not of kaput). Earliest documented use: 1537.

USAGE:

"Hard fighting continued for two months, until the Poles were forced finally to capitulate on 2 October 1944."
Richard Evans; Bloodbath Before Dawn; New Statesman (London, UK); Oct 18, 2013.

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