capsigrany

Perhaps from earlier and dialectal capserigany, from cap (“head”) and Latin sericaneus (“silken”) from sericus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəp.siˈɣɾaɲ]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kap.siˈɣɾaɲ]

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• Rhymes: -aɲ

capsigrany m (plural capsigranys)

1. woodchat shrike
2. scatterbrain

• “capsigrany”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007