capitulate

See also: capitoulate

English

WOTD – 9 April 2007

Etymology

From the participle stem of Medieval Latin capitulare (“draw up under headings”), from Latin capitulum (“heading, chapter, title”), diminutive of caput (“head”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈpɪ.tjʊ.leɪt/, /kəˈpɪ.t͡ʃə.leɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jʊ.leɪt/, /kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jə.leɪt/

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Verb

capitulate (third-person singular simple present capitulates, present participle capitulating, simple past and past participle capitulated)

1. (intransitive) To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:defeat

   He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 14, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
   • 1661, Peter Heylin, Ecclesia restaurata:

     there capitulates with the king […] to take to wife his daughter Mary

Synonyms

• (surrender, end resistance, give up): wave the white flag

Related terms

• chapiter
• chapter
• capital
• capitalism
• captain
• capitulation
• capitulatory
• recapitulate

Translations

surrender; end all resistance; to give up; to go along with or comply

• Albanian: kapitulloj (sq)
• Arabic: اِسْتَسْلَمَ (istaslama)
• Armenian: անձնատուր լինել (hy) (anjnatur linel), հանձնվել (hy) (hanjnvel)
• Azerbaijani: təslim olmaq
• Belarusian: капітулява́ць impf or pf (kapituljavácʹ), здава́цца impf (zdavácca), зда́цца pf (zdácca)
• Bulgarian: капитули́рам (bg) impf or pf (kapitulíram), преда́вам се (bg) impf (predávam se), преда́м се pf (predám se)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 投降 (zh) (tóuxiáng) (to surrender), 屈從／屈从 (zh) (qūcóng) (to submit/yield), 放棄／放弃 (zh) (fàngqì) (to give up)

• Czech: kapitulovat (cs) impf or pf, vzdávat se impf, vzdát se (cs) pf
• Danish: kapitulere, overgive sig
• Dutch: capituleren (nl), zich overgeven (nl)
• Esperanto: kapitulaci (eo)
• Estonian: kapituleeruma
• Finnish: antautua (fi), luovuttaa (fi), antaa periksi (fi)
• French: capituler (fr), se rendre (fr)
• Georgian: დანებება (danebeba)
• German: kapitulieren (de), sich ergeben (de)
• Greek: παραδίδομαι (el) (paradídomai), συνθηκολογώ (el) (synthikologó)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: megadja magát, kapitulál (hu)
• Italian: capitolare (it), arrendersi (it)
• Japanese: 降伏する (ja) (こうふくする, kōfuku suru)
• Kazakh: берілу (berılu), бағыну (bağynu)
• Korean: 항복하다 (ko) (hangbokhada)
• Kyrgyz: багынуу (ky) (bagınuu)
• Latvian: kapitulēt
• Lithuanian: kapituliuoti
• Macedonian: капитули́ра impf or pf (kapitulíra), се предава impf (se predava), се предаде pf (se predade)
• Maori: hauraro, whakahauraro
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kapitulere, overgi seg

• Persian: تسلیم شدن (fa) (taslim šodan)
• Polish: kapitulować (pl) impf, skapitulować (pl) pf, poddawać się (pl) impf, poddać się (pl) pf
• Portuguese: capitular (pt)
• Romanian: capitula (ro)
• Russian: капитули́ровать (ru) impf or pf (kapitulírovatʹ), сдава́ться (ru) impf (sdavátʹsja), сда́ться (ru) pf (sdátʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: капитули́рати impf or pf, преда́вати се impf, прѐдати се pf

  Roman: kapitulírati (sh) impf or pf, predávati se (sh) impf, prèdati se (sh) pf

• Slovak: kapitulovať impf or pf, vzdávať sa impf, vzdať se pf
• Slovene: kapitulirati impf or pf, predajati se impf, predati se pf
• Spanish: capitular (es), rendirse (es)
• Swedish: kapitulera (sv), ge upp (sv), resignera (sv)
• Tajik: таслим шудан (taslim šudan)
• Thai: ยอมแพ้ (yɔɔm-pɛ́ɛ)
• Turkish: teslim olmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: капітулюва́ти impf or pf (kapituljuváty), здава́тися (uk) impf (zdavátysja), зда́тися pf (zdátysja)
• Uzbek: taslim boʻlmoq
• Vietnamese: đầu hàng (vi)

Spanish

Verb

capitulate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of capitular combined with te