capitellum
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin capitellum, diminuitive of Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head), itself from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Doublet of caddie, cadel, cadet, capital, caudillo, and Kadet.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛləm
Noun
[edit]capitellum (plural capitella)
- (botany, anatomy, arachnology) Synonym of capitulum
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From capitulum + -lus or caput + -ellus.
Noun
[edit]capitellum n (genitive capitellī); second declension (Late Latin)
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | capitellum | capitella |
Genitive | capitellī | capitellōrum |
Dative | capitellō | capitellīs |
Accusative | capitellum | capitella |
Ablative | capitellō | capitellīs |
Vocative | capitellum | capitella |
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: cabdell
- → English: capitellum, capitellar, capitellate
- → German: Kapitell
- Italian: capitello
- → Portuguese: capitel
- → Norwegian: kapitel, kapitél
- Old French: chapitel
- Old Occitan: cabdel, capitel
- Gascon Occitan: capdet
- → French: cadet (see there for further descendants)
- → Old French: cadel
- → Spanish: capitel
- Gascon Occitan: capdet
- Old Spanish: cabdiello, capdiello
- Padanian:
- Emilian:
- Ligurian:
- Piedmontese:
- Romagnol: cavdël
- Portuguese: cabedelo, coudel
- Romanian: căpețel
- → Russian: капите́ль (kapitélʹ)
- Sardinian: cabitéllu
- Sicilian: capiteḍḍu
- Translingual: Capitella
References
[edit]- “capitellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- capitellum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- capitellum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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