media often use the name of the capital metonymically to refer to the government sitting there. For example, "London-Washington relations" is understood to mean diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and the United States.

Terminology and etymology

The word capital derives from the Latin word caput (genitive capitis), meaning 'head', later borrowed from Medieval Latin capitalis ('of the head'). The Latin phrase Roma Caput Mundi

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