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capitasti

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ca⋅pi⋅tas⋅ti

  [kah-pee-tahs-tee, -puh-]
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–noun
a pl. of capotasto.

ca⋅po⋅tas⋅to

  [kah-poh-tahs-toh, -puh-]
–noun, plural ca⋅po⋅tas⋅tos, ca⋅pi⋅tas⋅ti  [kah-pee-tahs-tee, -puh-] .
capo 1
Origin:
< It, equiv. to capo head (see capo 2 ) + tasto finger board, fret, lit., touch, feel, n. deriv. of tastare to touch lightly, perh. < VL *taxitare, for L taxāre, freq. of L tangere to touch

ca⋅po

1  [key-poh]
–noun, plural -pos.
1. any of various devices for a guitar, lute, banjo, etc., that when clamped or screwed down across the strings at a given fret will raise each string a corresponding number of half tones.
2. the nut of a guitar, lute, banjo, etc.
Also called capotasto.

Origin:
1875–80; < It, shortening of capotasto capotasto
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capo  (2)
"pitch-altering device for a stringed instrument," 1946, short for capo tasto (1876), from It., lit. "head stop."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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