The root cap
cap means take, seize. It comes from Latin capere.
It also appears as cept cip — the same root wearing a different vowel, which is why the words below do not all look alike.
7 words built on cap
- Capaciousadjective
large in capacity
- Capitulateverb
surrender under agreed conditions
- Captiousadjective
tending to find and call attention to faults
- Captivateverb
attract; cause to be enamored
- Inceptionnoun
an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
- Preceptnoun
a doctrine that is taught
- Recapitulateverb
repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life