Caput, a Latin word meaning literally head and by metonymy top, has been borrowed in a variety of English words, including capital, captain, and decapitate. The surname Caputo, common in the Campania region of Italy, comes from the appellation used by some Roman military generals. A variant form has surfaced more recently in the title Capo (or Caporegime), the head of La Cosa Nostra.
Mumps. Mumps is a contagious disease that is caused by the mumps virus. Mumps typically starts with a few days of fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, and loss of appetite, and is followed by swelling of salivary glands.Anyone who is not immune from either previous mumps infection of from vaccination can get mumps.umps. Mumps is a contagious disease that is caused by the mumps virus. Mumps typically starts with a few days of fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, and loss of appetite, and is followed by swelling of salivary glands.
Mumps is an infection caused by a virus. It mainly affects the salivary glands but sometimes other parts of the body are affected. Mumps normally affects children, but can occur at any age.Mumps is now rare in the UK as children are routinely immunised against mumps. The testicles (testes) are sometimes affected. 2  One testicle (testis) may become inflamed, swollen, and painful for about a week. 3  This is uncommon in young children. 4  However, about 1 in 4 males who get mumps over the age of 12 years will develop a painful swollen testis. 5  Occasionally, both testes are affected.