da ca·po (dä kä?p?)adv. Abbr. DC Music From the beginning. Used as a direction to repeat a passage.[Italian : da, from + capo, head.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.da capo (d?? ?k??p??) adj, adv (Classical Music) music to be repeated (in whole or part) from the beginningAbbreviation: DC [C18: from Italian, literally: from the head]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014da ca?po (d? ?k? po?) adv., adj. repeated from the beginning (used as a musical direction). [1715?25;