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▪ I. ‖ capitan|kapɪˈtan, ˈkæpɪtæn|
Also 8 capidan, (7–8 captain).
[Sp. capitan captain.]
Mostly attrib., as in Capitan (or Captain) Pacha, the chief admiral of the Turkish fleet. Hence capitan galley = capitana.
[1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2320/3 The Captain Bassa or Lord Admiral. 1707Ibid. No. 4336/6 The Captain Pasha will go..with the Gallies..into the Archipelago.] 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) II. 150, I rowed in the capitan galley of the Three Lanthorns at Navarino. 1835Willis Pencillings II. v. 96 He was formerly capitan pasha, or admiral-in-chief of the fleet. a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 182 Many a Capitan, and bey.
▪ II. capitan(e
obs. form of captain. |