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SU: A close relative of the cabbage family, caper is derived from the Latin word capra, which means "goat," a name that reflects its strong smell.
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SU: A close relative of the cabbage family, caper is derived from the Latin word capra, which means "goat," a name that reflects its strong smell.
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However, if we follow instead Hesychius' testimony, the irregular Celtic reflexes can be perfectly explained through borrowing from the implied Etruscan etymon *capra with its unaspirated k-.
Manly goats 2010
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"Rangers took photos of the albino capra ibex climbing with its mother Sunday at about 10,000 feet above the Les Laures valley in the northwestern Val d'Aosta region, said Christian Chioso, a regional wildlife official." ...
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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A young albino capra ibex was photographed by rangers in the northern Italian Alps. From the news:
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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Thus if the government capriciously gives you a goat capra hircus, you cannot complain of the gift in federal court.
The Volokh Conspiracy » IJ’s Bone Marrow Case: Wrapping Up 2009
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An handicrafts association backed by the Indian government has applied to register a Geographical Indicator tag for "Kashmiri Pashmina" as a mark for the rare soft wool from the underbelly of the capra hircus goat.
The Latest Dispute 2008
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[Jun. 11th, 2005 | 09: 45 am] dr. capra hoped that his innovative therapies would cure billy of his irrational belief in trolls and attendant fear of bridges
Script review amuchmoreexotic 2005
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The idea of evolution is essential to its philosophies, and I am assured that the most ominous of its strategies has been the arcane alliance it is planning to conclude with the genus capra
Sinister 2007
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Others refer most of what is said or done at this feast to the fate of Romulus, for, on this day, he vanished outside the gates in a sudden darkness and storm (some think it an eclipse of the sun), and from this, the day was called Nonae Caprotinae, the Latin for a goat being capra, and the place where he disappeared having the name of
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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