adj
Meaning 1
Per person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
per capita
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Canada, US: /pɝ ˈkæpɪtə/
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adj
Meaning 2
Shared equally among all individuals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 3
Per person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 4
Equally among all individuals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
per person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- among the states Connecticut has a high per capita income
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 6
per person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- we are spending $5,000 per capita annually for education in this district
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: for each person, of each person
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin per capita (“per head”).
Across languages
Translations
40 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 人均的 (rénjūn de) — per person
- Danish: per indbygger — per person
- Dutch: per hoofd — per person
- Finnish: henkilöä kohti — per person
- Finnish: asukasta kohti — per person
- French: par personne — per person
- German: Pro-Kopf- — per person
- Gujarati: માથાદીઠ (māthādīṭh) — per person
- Hindi: प्रति व्यक्ति (prati vyakti) — per person
- Hindi: फ़ी आदमी (fī ādmī) — per person
- Indonesian: per kapita — per person
- Italian: pro capite — per person
- Japanese: 一人当たり (hitori atari) — per person
- Korean: 일인당 (irindang) — per person
- Latin: per capita — per person
- Marathi: दरडोई (darḍoī) — per person
- Polish: per capita — per person
- Portuguese: per capita — per person
- Romanian: pe cap de locuitor — per person
- Spanish: por cabeza — per person
- Spanish: percápita — per person
- Tagalog: bawat ulo — per person
- Tibetan: མི་རེ་རེའི (mi re re'i) — per person
- Vietnamese: đầu người — per person
- French: par habitant — shared equally among all individuals
- Polish: per capita — shared equally among all individuals
- Chinese Mandarin: 人均 (rénjūn) — per person
- Esperanto: pokapa — per person
- French: par habitant — per person
- German: pro Kopf — per person
- Italian: a testa — per person
- Japanese: 一人当たり (hitori-atari) — per person
- Romanian: per cap de locuitor — per person
- Romanian: per capita — per person
- Romanian: pe capita — per person
- Russian: на ду́шу населе́ния (na dúšu naselénija) — per person
- Turkish: adam başına — per person
- Turkish: adam başı — per person
- Turkish: kişi başına — per person
- Polish: per capita — equally among all individuals