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The one who legally cannot leave a sinking ship before everyone else does.
means The person in command of a ship, team, or military unit — the one whose authority comes with the duty to answer for everything that happens under it.
from From Latin 'caput,' meaning 'head,' which gave Late Latin 'capitaneus' — literally 'chief, the head one.' It traveled through Old French 'capitaine' into English. So a captain is, at root, simply the head: the body part that decides, blamed when the rest of the ship goes down. A cousin of 'capital,' 'decapitate,' and 'chapter' — all sprung from the same Latin head.
- last out
- Maritime law makes them stay until others escape
- god at sea
- Once empowered to perform marriages mid-voyage
- rank origin
- From Latin caput, meaning head
- sports too
- Field captains can overrule coaching decisions
- total liability
- Bears legal blame even while asleep below deck
captain james cook — british explorer who mapped the coasts of australia, new zealand, and hawaii in the 1770s
captain ahab — fictional character in herman melville's moby dick (1851) pursuing the white whale
captain america — marvel comics superhero created in 1941, real name steve rogers