capire.
to understand
Meaning & usage
to understand
Ho capito quello che voleva dire.
Capisci?
to fit, to be contained
né mi potrà più capir nel pensiero ch’in animo celeste possa accendersi desiderio carnale
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Archaic Latin kapiō Latin capiō Italian capire Inherited from Latin capiō (“to take in, understand”), from Proto-Italic *kapiō, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *kap- (“to seize, grab”). Compare Galician, Spanish, and Portuguese caber (“to fit”), Catalan capir (“to understand”), and German kapieren (“to understand”).
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