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Definition: Captain |
CaptainNoun1. An officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant. 2. The naval officer in command of a military ship. 3. A policeman in charge of a precinct. 4. An officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship. 5. The leader of a group of people; "a captain of industry". 6. The pilot ins charge of an airship. 7. A diningroom attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers. Verb1. Be the captain of a sports team. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "captain" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Etymology: Captain \Cap"tain\ (k[a^]p"t[i^]n), noun. [Old English capitain, captain, Old French capitain, French capitaine (compare to Spanish capitan, Italian capitano), Late Latin capitaneus, capitanus, from Latin caput the head. See under Chief, and compare to Chieftain.]. (references) |
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Bible | Captain (1.) Heb. sar (1 Sam. 22:2; 2 Sam. 23:19). Rendered "chief," Gen. 40:2; 41:9; rendered also "prince," Dan. 1:7; "ruler," Judg. 9:30; "governor,' 1 Kings 22:26. This same Hebrew word denotes a military captain (Ex. 18:21; 2 Kings 1:9; Deut. 1:15; 1 Sam. 18:13, etc.), the "captain of the body-guard" (Gen. 37:36; 39:1; 41:10; Jer. 40:1), or, as the word may be rendered, "chief of the executioners" (marg.). The officers of the king's body-guard frequently acted as executioners. Nebuzar-adan (Jer. 39:13) and Arioch (Dan. 2:14) held this office in Babylon. The "captain of the guard" mentioned in Acts 28:16 was the Praetorian prefect, the commander of the Praetorian troops. (2.) Another word (Heb. katsin) so translated denotes sometimes a military (Josh. 10:24; Judg. 11:6, 11; Isa. 22:3 "rulers;" Dan. 11:18) and sometimes a civil command, a judge, magistrate, Arab. _kady_, (Isa. 1:10; 3:6; Micah 3:1, 9). (3.) It is also the rendering of a Hebrew word (shalish) meaning "a third man," or "one of three." The LXX. render in plural by _tristatai_; i.e., "soldiers fighting from chariots," so called because each war-chariot contained three men, one of whom acted as charioteer while the other two fought (Ex. 14:7; 15:4; 1 Kings 9:22; comp. 2 Kings 9:25). This word is used also to denote the king's body-guard (2 Kings 10:25; 1 Chr. 12:18; 2 Chr. 11:11) or aides-de-camp. (4.) The "captain of the temple" mentioned in Acts 4:1 and 5:24 was not a military officer, but superintendent of the guard of priests and Levites who kept watch in the temple by night. (Comp. "the ruler of the house of God," 1 Chr. 9:11; 2 Chr. 31:13; Neh. 11:11.) (5.) The Captain of our salvation is a name given to our Lord (Heb. 2:10), because he is the author and source of our salvation, the head of his people, whom he is conducting to glory. The "captain of the Lord's host" (Josh. 5:14, 15) is the name given to that mysterious person who manifested himself to Abraham (Gen. 12:7), and to Moses in the bush (Ex. 3:2, 6, etc.) the Angel of the covenant. (See ANGEL.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing a captain of any company, denotes your noblest aspirations will be realized. If a woman dreams that her lover is a captain, she will be much harassed in mind from jealousy and rivalry. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Captain Capitano del Popolo, i.e. Garibaldi (1807-1882). The Great Captain (el gran capitano). Gonzalvo di Cordova (1453-1515.) Manuel Comnenus of Trebizond (1120,1143-1180). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Occupations | Directs and coordinates activities of members of police force assigned to precinct or patrol division: Conducts roll call of officers at beginning and end of tour of duty. Explains general orders, special messages, and decisions of POLICE CHIEF (government ser.) 375.117-010 to subordinates. Assigns force members to designated posts. Informs members of command of changes in regulations and policies, implications of new or amended laws, and new techniques of police work. Submits report on condition of precinct or police station house and equipment and on daily precinct or patrol activities to superiors. Investigates charges of inefficiency or neglect of duty against force members and files charges based on evidence. Recommends merit awards for subordinates. Investigates charges filed against private citizens by complainants before issuing arrest orders. Reads and forwards reports of subordinates to POLICE CHIEF (government ser.). May review activity reports prepared by police personnel for quantity and quality of work performance. May read and answer police correspondence. May write and submit police press releases to media. May issue city permits signed by POLICE CHIEF (government ser.) for parades, street vendors and petitioners. May assign and work with ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT (any industry) 169.167-010 to prepare budget of department. May be designated according to assignment as Chief, Airport Safety And Security (government ser.); Police Lieutenant, Precinct (government ser.); Police Sergeant, Precinct (government ser.) II. (references) |
| Supervises activities of workers in section of dining room: Receives guests and conducts them to tables. Describes or suggests food courses and appropriate wines. When serving banquets, may be designated Banquet Captain (hotel & rest.). (references) | |
Personal Care & Hotels | A hotel fonctionary in charge of bellboys called also bell captain. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Character and Pattern Telephone Access Information Network System. Japanese Version of videotex. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Junior Officer, category OF-2, UK Army. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Slang in 1811 | CAPTAIN. Led captain; an humble dependant in a great family, who for a precarious subsistence, and distant hopes of preferment, suffers every kind of indignity, and is the butt of every species of joke or ill-humour. The small provision made for officers. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Sports & Leisure | The captain is the representative of his team and may address an official on matters of interpretation or to obtain essential information. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Captain is both a nautical term and a military rank, and has different meanings both at sea and in the military.Confusion between the three types of captain (nautical, naval and army) often exists in literature, drama and real life. The customs indicated are necessary to avoid confusion at sea when the question of "Who is in charge of the ship?" may be a matter of life and death.
Nautical
Captain is the legal status of the master of a ship at sea. A nautical captain may be a civilian or a naval commissioned officer of any rank. As the commander of a vessel under way, a nautical captain has enormous legal powers, including the right to use deadly force to suppress piracy and mutiny, and the ability to officiate at a marriage. Mutiny is the crime of disobeying the lawful orders of a nautical captain at sea. The captain of a ship at sea is in absolute command of that vessel even if higher-ranking persons are aboard. If higher-ranking persons give the nautical captain orders, they are very careful to say what they want done rather than specifiying how the orders are to be carried out, because even higher rank does not give them the right to interfere in how a captain runs the ship.The officer who is ranked immediately below the Captain is designated the First Officer (also Executive Officer or First Lieutenant), and is responsible for implementing the orders of the Captain as well as conferring with the Captain on matters concerning the ship.
Naval
Captain is the rank of a commissioned officer between commander and commodore or admiral (1 star). Naval officers below the rank of Captain who are assigned to command a ship are addressed as Captain while aboard that ship, by nautical custom. A naval captain traveling aboard a vessel s/he does not command is never referred to by rank to avoid confusion with the nautical captain, who remains in charge of the entire ship (including the passengers who outrank the nautical captain).Captains with field naval commands generally command ships. Commanders of aircraft carriers can be rear admirals, but generally, ship commanders are of captain rank or lower. Also, many captains are either retired or have a desk job.
Army
In armies, Captain is the rank of a commissioned officer between 1st Lieutenant and Major. An Army or Marine captain is ranked three steps lower than a navy Captain. An army or Marine Captain has no special authority with respect to a ship and is just another passenger or crew member. In the United States Army, United States Marine Corps and United States Air Force, a captain's insignia consists of two silver bars.Captains in the army generally command companies, which are one step below battalions.
See also military rank and Comparative military ranks.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Captain."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CAPTAIN | English | Computer Aided Processing and Terminal Information Access Network in New Jersey | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CaptainSynonyms: chieftain (n), head waiter (n), maitre d'hotel (n), master (n), police captain (n), police chief (n), sea captain (n), senior pilot (n), skipper (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Blusterer | Noun: blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer, brawler; fanfaron; braggart; (boaster); bully, terrorist, rough; bulldozer, hoodlum, hooligan, larrikin, roarer; Mohock, Mohawk; drawcansir, swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso, Hector, Chrononhotonthologos; jingo; desperado, dare-devil, fire eater; fury; (violent person); rowdy; slang-whanger, tough. |
Director | Head, head man, head center, boss; principal, president, speaker; chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson; captain; (master); superior; mayor; (civil authority); vice president, prime minister, premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch. |
Favorite | Noun: favorite, pet, cosset, minion, idol, jewel, spoiled child, enfant gat_; led captain; crony; fondling; apple of one's eye, man after one's own heart; persona grata. |
Master | Admiral, admiralty; rear admiral, vice admiral, port admiral; commodore, captain, commander, lieutenant, ensign, skipper, mate, master, officer of the day, OD; navarch. |
Noun: master, padrone; lord, lord paramount; commander, commandant; captain; chief, chieftain; sirdar, sachem, sheik, head, senior, governor, ruler, dictator; leader; (director); boss,Noun: master, padrone; lord, lord paramount; commander, commandant; captain; chief, chieftain; sirdar, sachem, sheik, head, senior, governor, ruler, dictator; leader; (director); boss, cockarouse, sagamore, werowance. | |
Marshal, field marshal, marechal; general, generalissimo; commander in chief, seraskier, hetman; lieutenant general, major general; colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, centurion, skipper, lieutenant, first lieutenant, second lieutenant, sublieutenant, officer, staff officer, aide-de-camp, brigadier, brigade major, adjutant, jemidar, ensign, cornet, cadet, subaltern, noncommissioned officer, warrant officer; sergeant, sergeant major; color sergeant; corporal, corporal major; lance corporal, acting corporal; drum major; captain general, dizdar, knight marshal, naik, pendragon. | |
Servant | Serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot; bondsman, bondswoman; bondslave; ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe; villian, villein; beadsman, bedesman; sizar; pensioner, pensionary; client; dependant, dependent; hanger on, satellite; parasite; (servility); led captain; protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature. |
Servility | Sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave; (servant); courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface , heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler. |
Superiority | Noun: superiority, majority; greatness; advantage; pull; preponderance, preponderation; vantage ground, prevalence, partiality; personal superiority; nobility; (rank); Triton among the minnows, primus inter pares, nulli secundus, captain; crackajack. |
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Screenplays | A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to show his quality (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) What would the world be like without Captain Hook (Hook; writing credit: J.M. Barrie;) I just can't do it, Captain. I don't have the power (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; writing credit: Jack Bernstein, Jim Carrey, Tom Shadyac) Call me idiot, not you captain - I mean, you know what I mean (Spaceballs; writing credit: Mel Brooks and Ronny Graham.) Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking (Con Air; writing credit: Scott Rosenberg) | |
Lyrics | The captain seemed to understand, (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; performing artist: Bette Midler) So I called up the Captain, (Hotel California; performing artist: EAGLES) Captain Video, done went home one pilot laid to rest (Midnight At The Lost & Found; performing artist: Meat Loaf) On board I'm the captain, So climb aboard, (Come Sail Away; performing artist: STYX) It's like my man Captain Sky ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo (1974) Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels (1971) Target Captain Karate (1968) Captain Nice (1967) M.D. Captain Newman (1963) | |
Song Titles | Ride Captain Ride (performing artist: The Blues Image) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | L to R - Mate R. P. Bush, Mrs. Bush, Captain H. A. Cotton, Mate William Weidlich Roland Horne and unknown. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Rear Admiral Leo O. Colbert and Captain Clement Garner On inspection trip to Alaska geodetic parties. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A firehose is employed by the Captain of the ROBERT LEE to spread oyster spat reared by the Oyster Recovery Partnership. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Early morning mist over New York City. Captain Alfred G. Buckham. In: "Flug Und Wolken", Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munchen, 1932. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Captain of the F/V ATLANTIC TRAVELLER offloading squid at Co-op Seafood Market dock. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Marty Millard, a charter boat captain, casts for bait mullet in Conn Harbor. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Lieutenant Don Winter departing NOAA Ship SURVEYOR with Captain Karl Jeffers of SURVEYOR on reconnaissance mission in leased Bell 206. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | A bucket dredge, the Captain Bufford Berry, working to create the containment dike. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | The Captain Berry dredges a containment dike at Big Island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Captain Nemo observing a giant octopus from the viewing port of the submarine Nautilus. In Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues under the Sea.". Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Waterjet rainbow" by Dennis Bale Commentary: "Sunlight creates a rainbow in the Captain Cook Waterjet, Canberra Australia." | "Old Arch" by Vi Xs Commentary: "The last remaining building of Captain Cooks house, Stewarts Park, UK." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Captain J. G. Stedman | During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it. |
| Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. | |
| Old England liberty -- to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress. | |
Captain William Driver | I name thee Old Glory. |
Sallust | The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of mortals. |
Saturnius | "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make a bad general." |
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John Locke | 1690 | Also (say they) in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that reddest out and broughtest in Israel, and the Lord said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | The old man explained it to the Captain. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The quarrel of the Vallee des Dappes commenced between France and Switzerland by a memorial from Captain, afterwards General Dufour |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | In fact after some talk about their favourite writers Nash declared for Captain Marryat who, he said, was the greatest writer |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Good night, good Captain Blunt |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I desired the Captain would please to accept this ring in return of his civilities, which he absolutely refused |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Burma | In July 2000, Captain Khin Maung Myint reportedly forcibly ordered the closure of all Christian schools in Tamu Township. (references) |
Economic History | Vanuatu | In 1774, Captain Cook named the islands the New Hebrides, a name that lasted until independence. (references) |
Laos | In 1960, Kong Le, a paratroop captain, seized Vientiane in a coup and demanded formation of a neutralist government to end the fighting. (references) | |
Human Rights | Chad | On May 12, the central police captain in Sarh shot five agronomy students in the legs. (references) |
Colombia | A police lieutenant colonel, captain, and lieutenant, as well as two DAS agents were suspended. (references) | |
Rwanda | In November 2000, former army Captain Innocent Sagahutu was transferred from Denmark to Arusha. (references) | |
Political Economy | Guatemala | On June 8, a court convicted an army captain, a retired army colonel, a former EMP specialist, and a Catholic priest for the 1998 murder of Catholic bishop and human rights activist Juan Gerardi Conedera. (references) |
Political Rights | San Marino | In the past, women have served on the Council, including as Secretary of State for Internal Affairs and as Captain Regent; however, no women served in such positions during the year. (references) |
Trade | Qatar | When an L/C is opened, the supplier is required to provide a certificate of origin, and a certificate from the captain of the ship or from the shipping agency stating that the ship is allowed to enter Arab ports. (references) |
Worker Rights | Colombia | In February the authorities arrested active duty police captain Carlos Gomez. (references) |
Benin | At year's end, none of the persons arrested in connection with the Etireno (such as the ship's captain) had been brought to trial. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Among the Jews observance of the day was enforced by a Commandment of which this is the Christian version: "Remember the seventh day to make thy neighbor keep it wholly." To the Creator it seemed fit and expedient that the Sabbath should be the last day of the week, but the Early Fathers of the Church held other views. So great is the sanctity of the day that even where the Lord holds a doubtful and precarious jurisdiction over those who go down to (and down into) the sea it is reverently recognized, as is manifest in the following deep-water version of the Fourth Commandment: Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh holystone the deck and scrape the cable. Decks are no longer holystoned, but the cable still supplies the captain with opportunity to attest a pious respect for the divine ordinance. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | On Lake Champlain, where our superiority had for some time been undisputed, the British squadron lately came into action with the American, commanded by Captain Macdonough. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | The active, persevering, and unremitted energy of Captain Warrington and of the officers and men under his command on that trying and perilous service have been crowned with signal success, and are entitled to the approbation of their country. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We honor Captain Cherrey, and we promise you, Captain, we'll finish the job you began. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Captain" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 65.51% of the time. "Captain" is used about 5,048 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 65.51% | 3,306 | 2,890 |
| Noun (proper) | 34.38% | 1,735 | 4,848 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.1% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,048 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "captain" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Captain | Last name | 400 | 21,684 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "captain". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Shalisha | N/A | Biblical | Captain |
| Shelesh | N/A | Biblical | Captain |
| Shilshah | N/A | Biblical | Captain |
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Expressions using "captain": bell captain ♦ captain Abstraction ♦ captain Bligh ♦ captain Cook ♦ captain Crunch ♦ Captain general ♦ captain Hicks ♦ captain Horatio Hornblower ♦ captain James Cook ♦ captain Kidd ♦ Captain lieutenant ♦ captain of industry ♦ captain of the day ♦ cavalry captain ♦ flag captain ♦ Fleet captain ♦ group captain ♦ house captain ♦ Led captain ♦ pipe the captain aboard ♦ police captain ♦ screen captain ♦ sea captain. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "captain": Captain-elect, captain-general, captain-in-waiting, captain-superintendent, Captain-to-be. | |
Ending with "captain": sea-captain, vice-captain. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
captain stabbin | 5,805 | captain marvel | 139 |
captain america | 1,012 | captain quarters | 133 |
the captain | 710 | captain stabbins | 130 |
captain bed | 553 | captain caveman | 113 |
captain county lake | 388 | captain ron | 111 |
captain tsubasa | 379 | captain chair | 100 |
captain stabin | 342 | captain stabbin.com | 97 |
captain kangaroo | 323 | captain 69 | 93 |
captain morgan | 319 | captain hat | 93 |
captain underpants | 307 | beach captain myrtle quarters | 93 |
captain ds | 267 | captain america movie | 91 |
captain jack | 218 | captain scarlet | 80 |
captain code | 214 | captain tenille | 76 |
captain planet | 204 | america captain picture | 75 |
captain stabbing | 175 | hotel captain cook | 73 |
captain hook | 168 | captain kirk | 70 |
captain nemo | 167 | captain and tennille | 69 |
captain cook | 154 | captain kidd | 64 |
captain james cook | 149 | captain yankee | 59 |
captain beefheart | 141 | captain corellis mandolin | 56 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "captain"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | kaptein. (various references) | |
Albanian | komandant (chief, commandant, commander, head, sirdar), kapiten (skipper). (various references) | |
Arabic | نقيب, قائد الطائرة (pilot), قبطان (shipmaster), زعيم (bell wether, boss, chief, cob, elder, head, leader, pacemaker, primate, ruler), ربان (boatswain, master, navigator, pilot, rabbi, skipper), رئيس فريق (skipper). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | командир на рота, капитан на отбор (skipper), капитан (padrone, sailing master, skipper), военачалник (warlord), началник на пожарна команда. (various references) | |
Chinese | 隊長 (team leader), 艦長 (commander), 領隊 , 上尉. (various references) | |
Czech | kapitán (master, skipper). (various references) | |
Danish | kaptajn (master, ship's captain). (various references) | |
Dutch | kapitein (master, ship's captain, skipper), captain, hopman, gezagvoerder (commander, master, ship's captain, skipper). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kapitano, ŝipestro. (various references) | |
Faeroese | skipari, kapteynur. (various references) | |
Farsi | ناخدا (Commodore, Shipmaster), سرکرده (Commander). (various references) | |
Finnish | kapteeni (master). (various references) | |
French | capitaine (ship's captain), commandant (ship's captain). (various references) | |
Frisian | kaptein. (various references) | |
German | hauptmann (leader), kapitän (master, master mariner, skip, skipper), mannschaftskapitän, kommandant (commandant, commander, commanding officer). (various references) | |
Greek | καπετάνιοσ (skipper), καπετάνιος (barge captain, master, ship's captain, skipper), σμηναγόσ (squadron leader), πλοίαρχοσ (privateer, skipper), πλοίαρχος, λοχαγόσ, αρχηγόσ (chief, chieftain, commander, head, headman, pendagon, principal), αρχηγεύω. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שר (chancellor, chief, commander, head, minister, prince, ruler, secretary, vizier), קפיטן, קברניט (master, skipper), ראש קבוצה (skipper), רב חובל (shipmaster, skipper), סרן. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kapitány (keeper, sailing master, skip, skipper), százados (capt., flight lieutenant). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemimpin regu, nakhoda, kapten. (various references) | |
Irish | captaen. (various references) | |
Italian | capitano (captian, leader, shipmaster, skipper), comandante (chief, commandant, commander, commanding). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 艇長 , 艦長 , 空尉 (lieutenant), 大佐 (colonel), 大尉 , キャビネ判 (cabbage, cabin, cabinet size, camel, camisole, capital gain, capital letter, capital loss, capitalism, CAPTAIN System, caption, capture, caramel, caravan, caraway, carburetor, career, career government employee, career woman, carrier, carry, character, Character and Pattern Telephone Access Information System, character display, character in a manga or anime, light mountain-climbing shoes), 一尉 , 主将 (commander-in-chief). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいさ (colonel, great difference), たいい (abdication, physical standard, physique, posture, schema), くうい (lieutenant, post in name only, vacant post), しゅしょう (admirable, advocacy, beginning of a book, commander-in-chief, excerpt, excerption, laudable, manual copying, palm, palmar, Prime Minister, promotion), かんちょう (a spy, authorities, CabinetSecretary, chief abbot, chief librarian, curator, director, ebb tide, enema, government office, Han Dynasty, low tide, one's best form, superintendent, superintendent priest), いちい (a boat, earnestness, first place, first rank, one reed, unique, unit's position), キャプテン , ていちょう (courteous, dullness, hospitable, inactive, low tide, low tone, polite, slack, slow, sluggish, undertone, weakness). (various references) | |
Korean | 경감. (various references) | |
Manx | captan marrey (Master mariner), captan lhuingey (Master mariner), captan (commodore, skipper), ard-leeideilagh (governing principle). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kaptein. (various references) | |
Papiamen | kapitan. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aptaincay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | capitão (skipper). (various references) | |
Romanian | conduce (accompany, administer, be in command, boss, boss the show, carry on, charge, command, conduct, control, convey, direct, drive, escort, govern, guide, handle, head, husband, lead, lead the way, manage, master, operate, order, overrule, pilot, preside, restrain, rule, run, sail, see, see off, show, show up, steer, superintend, supervise, take, wield), conducãtor (chief, commander, commanding, conductor, directive, fugleman, governor, guide, head, leader, leading, man at the wheel, manager, master, principal, ruler, ruling, superintendent, superior, transmitting), comandant (commandant, commander, governor, leader, master), cãpitan (chief, chieftain, commander, head, master, shipmaster), fi cãpitanul, şef (boss, cap, chairman, chief, chieftain, foreman, governor, great gun, head, header, headman, leader, manager, master, president, principal, ringleader, superior). (various references) | |
Russian | шкипер (skipper), капитан капитанский, капитан (boss, chief, leader), метрдотель (head waiter, headwaiter, maitre dhotel, maitre d'hotel), брандмейстер, полководец (chieftain). (various references) | |
Scottish | caiptean (a captain). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zapovednik (commandant, commander), kapiten, kapetan. (various references) | |
Spanish | capitán (boss, chief, commander, leader, master mariner, owner, padrone, skip, skipper). (various references) | |
Sranan | sipiman, kapten, kapren. (various references) | |
Swedish | kapten (flight lieutenant, master, skipper). (various references) | |
Turkish | kaptan (master, old man, shipmaster, skip, skipper, the old man). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kapitan (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | капітан торгового судна, бути копітаном, начальник (chief, commandant, principal, superior), начальник поліцейського округу, начальник пожежної команди, офіцер (officer), очолювати (chair, head, manage), вести (conduct, guide, lead, lead up, pilot, pioneer, prosecute, transact), головний (arch-, basal, basic, broad, capital, cephalic, chief, governing, grand, head, leading, master, overriding, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, staple, star), брандмейстер, капітан команди, старший (arch-, ayne, chief, elder, senior), керівник (center, centre, chief, conductor, guide, head, leader, manager, superintendent), керувати (administer, administrate, boss, conduct, control, direct, govern, guide, helm, lead, manage, prevent, quarterback, rule, run, run the show, steer, tutor), командир (commander, officer), командир війскового корабля, командир роти, шкіпер (skipper), староста (monitor), старшина клубу, капітан (padrone). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thủ lĩnh tướng lão luyện, người chỉ huy (conductor, head, leader, sirdar), người cầm đầu (flag-waver, headman). (various references) | |
Welsh | capten. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ugula. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caput, caput, capitis, centurio, centurione, centuriones, centurionesque, centurioni, centurionibus, centurionis. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | capitaneus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 10, Verse 22 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC |
