Släkthistoria för Capitan
Capitan Vad efternamn betyder
Spanish (Capitán): status name from capitán ‘captain’ a title denoting the master of a ship or an officer in the army from Late Latin capitaneus ‘chief’ ‘principal’ from caput ‘head’. Americanized form of Polish Croatian Slovenian and German Kapitan Czech and Slovak Kapitán or Kapitáň ‘captain’. American shortened and altered form of Greek Kapetanos ‘captain’ or of its patronymic and other derivatives (see Kapitan). Compare Captain.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
