capitano
Speech parts
1. capitano - Noun
2. Capitano - Proper noun
Meaning
A head man.
One of the four stock characters of commedia dell'arte who typically appropriated the name "captain" for himself but was not one; he was often a blowhard and a swaggerer who could maintain his self-important claims only if none of the locals knew him.
Capitano (plural Capitanos)
A surname from Italian.
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Examples
Eventually, however, after a long siege, Pisa was occupied by Florentines in 1406: in fact florentines corrupted the Capitano del Popolo ("People's Chieftain") Giovanni Gambacorta that opened by night the city gate of San Marco.
Noms de guerre Il Capitano usually has a properly showy name for himself, preferably several lines long and followed by many made-up titles and lists of relations.
However, all items for the training were shipped in the name of Delta Force Security and his hotel, El Capitano was used for the training.
Major Bloodnok of the Goon Show bears some resemblance to Il Capitano and shares many of his traits, such as lust, greed and cowardice.
The former is for the Capitano incarnation, who seeks to fight all the other characters and the latter is for a singing puppet.
Capitano was remanded to jail and will appear in Webster Town Court on the charges.