Capax, capacis, pen. prod. om. g. Plin That taketh or conteineth: able to receiue or conteine: large: big.Capax calix ad sextarios tres. Plin. Conteining about three Sextarios. Orcus capax populi.Ouid.Domus capax.Ouid.Large and wide.Naues capaces fluminum. Vide NAVIS. Regnum capax. Sen. Ample: great.Intestina capaciora. Plin. Bigger.Capacibus ripis effusus amnis.Ouid.Scyphi capaciores. Horat. Bigger.Vrna capax. Horar. Vterus capax. Plin. Capaces auies.Cic.Delighting much to heare.Ad præcepta capax animus.Ouid.Apt to take instruction.Animo capaci concipere.Ouid. Ingenium capax. Ouid.Capax amicitiæ.Plin. iun.That can consider what frendship is, and how it should be vsed.Animæ capax pulmo. Sen. Receyning breath.Inuidiæ capax. Sen. Able to defend himselfe against his yll willers.Scelerum capax iuuenis. Sen. Officij capax. Claud. Capacissima omnis secreti vxor, Plin. iun.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
căpax, ācis, adj. [capio], that can contain or hold much, wide, large, spacious, roomy, capacious (in poets and in post-Aug. prose freq.; in Cic. perh. only once, and then trop; v. infra). I.Lit.: mundus, Lucr. 6, 123: conchae, Hor. C. 2, 7, 22: urna, id. ib. 3, 1, 16; Ov. M. 3, 172: capaciores scyphos, Hor. Epod. 9, 33: pharetram, Ov. M. 9, 231: putei, id. ib. 7, 568: urbs, id. ib. 4, 439: ripae, id. Am. 3, 6, 19: uterus, Plin. 10, 33, 49, 93: portus, id. 4, 7, 12, 26: spatiosa et capax domus, Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 5: villa usibus capax, id. ib. 2, 17, 4: forma capacissima, Quint. 1, 10, 40: moles, Tac. A. 2, 21.—With gen.: circus capax populi, Ov. A. A. 1, 136: cibi vinique capacissimus, Liv. 9, 16, 13: flumen onerariarum navium capax, Plin. 6, 23, 26, 99; 12, 1, 5, 11: magnae sedis insula haud capax est, Curt. 4, 8, 2.—II.Trop.A.Capacious, susceptible, capable of, good, able, apt, fit for: Demosthenes non semper implet aures meas: ita sunt avidae et capaces, etc., Cic. Or. 29, 104: ingenium,
great
, Ov. M. 8, 533: animi ad praecepta, id. ib. 8, 243: animo majora capaci, id. ib. 15, 5: capax est animus noster, Sen. Ep. 92, 30.—With gen.: animal mentis capacius altae (i.e. homo), Ov. M. 1, 76: imperii, Tac. H. 1, 49; cf. id. A. 1, 13: aetas honorum nondum capax, id. H. 4, 42: molis tantae mens, id. A. 1,11: secreti, that can keep or conceal, Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 7: capacia bonae spei pectora, Curt. 8, 13, 11: magnorum operum, id. 6, 5, 29: ingenium omnium bonarum artium capacissimum, Sen. Contr. 2, praef. 4: cujusque clari operis capacia ingenia, Vell. 1, 16, 2: bonum et capax recta discendi ingenium, id. 2, 29, 5: laboris ac fidei, id. 2, 127, 3: ingenia fecunda et totius naturae capacissima, Plin. 2, 78, 80, 190: doli,
fit
,
suitable for
, Dig. 43, 4, 1.—B. In the Lat. of the jurists (cf. capio, II. F.), that has a right to an inheritance, Dig. 34, 3, 29.—Adv.: căpācĭter, Aug. Trin. 11, 2.