CAUDILLO

PRONUNCIATION: (kaw-DEEL/DEE-yoh)

MEANING: noun: A leader, especially a military dictator.

ETYMOLOGY: From Spanish caudillo, from Latin capitellum, diminutive of Latin caput (head). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kaput- (head), which also gave us head, captain, chef, chapter, cadet, cattle, chattel, achieve, mischief, biceps, occiput, capitation, capitulate, recapitulate, and precipitous. Earliest documented use: 1852.
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BAUDILLO - a Bostonian House of Ill Repute

CARDILLO - a venerable gourmet shop on Brattle Street in Cambridge (see here)

CAUDAL, LO! - ahoy tailward !