caput🔊

(archaic) The head.

(archaic) A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.

The top or superior part of a thing.

The head, the leader or chief of a geoup of people.

(obsolete) The capital city, the headquarters.

(historical) The Caput Senatus, council or ruling body of the {{w|University of Cambridge}} prior to its constitution of 1856[https://glossary.lib.cam.ac.uk/term/caput Cambridge University website]

(colloquial) (caput succedaneum).