capparis

See also: Capparis

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάππαρις (kápparis).

Noun

capparis f (genitive capparis); third declension

1. caper (plant and berry)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or -in, ablative singular in -ī).

	singular	plural
nominative	capparis	capparēs
genitive	capparis	capparium
dative	capparī	capparibus
accusative	capparim capparin	capparēs capparīs
ablative	capparī	capparibus
vocative	capparis	capparēs

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cappero
    • → French: câpre
  • Sicilian: chiàppara
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: tàpano, tapano
  • Piedmontese: tàpari
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: tapèra, tapèna
  • Gascon: tapera
  • Occitan: tapera, tapena
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: tapara, tapera
  • >? Mozarabic: [Term?]
    • → Spanish: alcaparra
• Borrowings:
  • → English: caper
  • → Translingual: Capparis

References

• “capparis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• capparis 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)
• capparis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.