place · explicit · wikidata: Q173292 · seeded_headword_alignment
Etymologies
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Unclear Metalinguistic
The entry names the island 'Capri' (an island of Italy), cites Hecataeus (Europa), records the variant form 'Kapriai' and the ethnicon 'Kapriates', and notes the poet Blaisos was a Capriote. No explanation is given for the origin of the name.