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capulo

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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capula (small cup) +‎

Verb

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capulō (present infinitive capulāre, perfect active capulāvī, supine capulātum); first conjugation

  1. to decant, pour
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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capulō

  1. dative/ablative singular of capulum

Etymology 3

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Unknown. Perhaps from cāpō (capon, castrated cockerel), or capillus (hair), thus “shave”; alternatively from a Germanic language, as in Middle Dutch cappen (cut), though the latter is itself of uncertain origin.

Verb

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capulō (present infinitive capulāre, perfect active capulāvī, supine capulātum); first conjugation (Medieval Latin)

  1. to cut off, sever
  2. to cut out
  3. to fell (a tree)
  4. to destroy
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Etymology 4

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From capulus +‎ with capulus having the original, unattested meaning "catcher".

Verb

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capulō (present infinitive capulāre, perfect active capulāvī, supine capulātum); first conjugation

  1. (rare) to catch
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References

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  • capulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • capulare 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)
  • capulo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • capulo in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “capulare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 139
  • Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “capulo”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 98