English
supercaption
From super- + caption.
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
…
Proto-Italic *kapjō ‘to take, seize’
Archaic Latin kapiō
Latin capiō ‘to take, to seize’
Latin captiō ‘deception, fraud’
English caption
Today it means
noun An on-screen caption identifying the place and people being shown.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “supercaption”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / supercaption