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.
1 Mumps virus causes fever, headache, muscle pain, loss of appetite, and swollen glands. 2  It can lead to deafness, meningitis (infection of the brain and spinal cord covering), painful swelling of the testicles or ovaries, and rarely sterility.3  Rubella virus causes rash, arthritis (mostly in women), and mild fever. Measles virus causes rash, cough, runny nose, eye irritation, and fever. 2  It can lead to ear infection, pneumonia, seizures (jerking and staring), brain damage, and death. 3  Mumps virus causes fever, headache, muscle pain, loss of appetite, and swollen glands.