crapistu

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• capistru, crapista

Etymology

Inherited from Latin capistrum. Cognate with Italian capestro.

Noun

crapistu m needs inflection

1. halter (of animals)

   Synonyms: capizza, strincituri, tistali, capizzuni, suattu

   • a. 1368, De Cruyllis–Spatafora, “lu modu di piglari di infrinari e di adumari li cavalli”, in Libru di la Mascalchia […]‎^[1], translation of De Medicina equorum by Giordano Ruffo, page 10r:

     Prisu e misuli lu capistru in testa minissi ad unu locu ki si adusi ad adumari […]

     After taking and attaching the halter to its head, it shall be brought in a place suitable for taming.

2. noose (around one's neck)

   Synonym: chiaccu di furca

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1236: “la cavezza” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Traina, Antonino (1868) “crapistu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 1009–1010
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “crapistu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 351
• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “crapistu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 214