capitanía
Spanish, noun/kapitaˈnia/
capitanía is spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-N-Í-A (9 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written Spanish, the 24,401st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Capitanía is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “captainship; captaincy (the job or status of a captain)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Empleo de capitán”.
What does capitanía mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecaptainship; captaincy (the job or status of a captain)
- 2
femininecompany (unit of soldiers commanded by a captain)
- 3
feminineanchorage fee (fee for anchoring in a port)
- 4
feminineobsoletebattalion; regiment
- 5
feminineobsoletemilitary government
- 6
feminineobsoletedomain; dominion; rule; territory
- 7
feminineobsoletefeudal estate; seigniory; manor; lordship
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Empleo de capitán. 2. Compañía de soldados, con sus oficiales subalternos, mandada por un capitán. 3. Anclaje (tarifa que se paga en los puertos). 4. Gobierno militar.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of capitanía
- capitanías plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce capitanía?
- /kapitaˈnia/
- [ka.pi.t̪aˈni.a]
- [kapit̪aˈnia]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to capitanía
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is capitanía in Spanish?
capitanía appears 1.8 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).