capit-, capt-, cap-, cep-, ceps-, chapt-, chef, cip-

Etymology: from the prefix ex-, "out of" and cappa, "cape".

The cape was an ordinary article of clothing. When a person was attacked and the cape grasped, he would squirm out of it, leaving the attacker holding the cape. Breaking loose and fleeing was an "escape"; and so leaving "out of the cape" or an ex cappa.

A German word for "anything broken, wrecked, or unserviceable".

The origin of kaput presented by "etymologists" seems to be inconsistent and even irrational

What is the correct information?

1. A change of meaning of the Latin caput occurred in German, in which kaputt now means "wrecked" or "broken". Germanic burial squads in the Middle Ages counted each corpse as a "head", or caput, so the word came to mean "broken, wrecked, or unserviceable".

2. Capot was borrowed into English directly from French as early as the seventeenth century as a noun signifying the winning of all the tricks in piquet (a card game) and other games.

In German this same capot was transliterated as kaput, and from the sense of having lost a game, German kaput developed the senses of "finished" and "broken".

3. Informal, "finished, dead, done for, broken (of a device or machine)".

From 1895, borrowing of German kaputt, probably abstracted from the earlier phrase capot machen, a partial translation by false interpretation of faire in the French faire capot, "be defeated", from its use in the card game of piquit where the phrase refers to losing all the tricks in a game; ultimately from capot cover or bonnet, from Middle French cape cloak.

A reference to the central portion or point of the occiput (the back part of the skull).

1. Reckless, or malicious, behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others.
2. The quality, or nature, of being harmful or evil.
3. Behavior, especially by children, that is undesirable or troublesome without being malicious.

1. Behaving, or likely to behave, in a naughty or troublesome way, but in fun and not meaning serious harm: "The little girl was playing with the mischievous puppy."
2. Intended to tease or to cause trouble, though usually in fun or without much malice.
3. Full of mischief or expressing someone's intention or inclination to have fun by teasing, playing tricks, or causing trouble; troublesome; irritating.
4. At times, causing or meant to cause serious trouble, damage, or pain: "Someone was telling mischievous lies about her recent job promotion."

1. In a disobedient or naughty way: "The children smiled mischievously."
2. Behaving in a way, or describing behavior, which is slightly bad but is not intended to cause serious harm or damage: "The puppy was mischievously shaking the man's slipper."
3. A reference to behavior or words that are intended to cause harm or trouble: ""He realized that someone was mischievously passing around harmful gossip."

1. An overhanging or extremely steep mass of rock; such as, a crag or the face of a cliff.
2. The brink of a dangerous or disastrous situation: "The school team was on the precipice of defeat."
3. Etymology: from "fall to great depth"; from French précipice, from Latin pręcipitium, "a steep place"; literally, "a fall" or "leap"; from pręceps, pręcipitis, "steep, headlong, headfirst"; from prae-, "in front" + caput, "head".

The meaning of "steep face of rock" is recorded from 1632.

Capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom, as a substance in solution.

1. Quality, fact, or instance of being precipitate.
2. Great haste; rashness.

1. A substance which causes a chemical or mechanical precipitation.
2. An agent that causes a precipitate to form.
3. Done with very great haste and without due deliberation.
4. Done too quickly and impulsively, often resulting in mistakes.