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capotasto

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A device, placed across the strings of a fretted instrument such as a guitar, to shorten the strings and thus allow upward transposition without altered fingering

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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History

Etymology

From Italian capotasto, from capo (“head”) + tasto (“fret”).

Across languages

Translations

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Czech: kapodastr — device placed across the strings
  • Dutch: capo — device placed across the strings
  • Dutch: capodastro — device placed across the strings
  • Dutch: capodaster — device placed across the strings
  • Dutch: capodastre — device placed across the strings
  • Finnish: kapo — device placed across the strings
  • Finnish: capo — device placed across the strings
  • French: capodastre — device placed across the strings
  • German: Kapodaster — device placed across the strings
  • Hebrew: קאפו — device placed across the strings
  • Hungarian: kapodaszter — device placed across the strings
  • Hungarian: kápó — device placed across the strings
  • Italian: capotasto — device placed across the strings
  • Māori: whakakopa — device placed across the strings
  • Norwegian: barréklemme — device placed across the strings
  • Norwegian: capo — device placed across the strings
  • Norwegian: kapotast — device placed across the strings
  • Polish: kapodaster — device placed across the strings
  • Portuguese: pestana — device placed across the strings
  • Portuguese: capotraste — device placed across the strings
  • Russian: капода́стр (kapodástr) — device placed across the strings
  • Serbo-Croatian: kapodaster — device placed across the strings
  • Slovak: kapodastr — device placed across the strings
  • Slovene: kapodastr — device placed across the strings
  • Lower Sorbian: kapodaster — device placed across the strings
  • Upper Sorbian: kapodaster — device placed across the strings
  • Spanish: ceja — device placed across the strings
  • Spanish: cejilla — device placed across the strings
  • Swedish: capotasto — device placed across the strings
  • Vietnamese: ca-pô — device placed across the strings