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capitellum

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English

Etymology

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

Rhymes: -ɛləm

Noun

capitellum (plural capitella)

(botany, anatomy, arachnology) Synonym of capitulum

Anagrams

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Latin

Etymology

From capitulum +‎ -lus or caput +‎ -ellus.

Noun

capitellum n (genitive capitellī); second declension (Late Latin)

diminutive of caput (“head”): small head
capital or chapiter of a column

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	capitellum	capitella
genitive	capitellī	capitellōrum
dative	capitellō	capitellīs
accusative	capitellum	capitella
ablative	capitellō	capitellīs
vocative	capitellum	capitella

Descendants

Catalan: cabdell
→ English: capitellum, capitellar, capitellate
→ German: Kapitell
Italian: capitello
- → Portuguese: capitel
→ Norwegian: kapitel, kapitél
Old French: chapitel
- French: chapiteau
  - → Czech: šapitó
Old Occitan: cabdel, capitel
- Gascon Occitan: capdet
  - → French: cadet (see there for further descendants)
- → Old French: cadel
  - → English: cadel
  - French: cadeau
    - Haitian Creole: kado
    - → Danish: cadeau
    - → Dutch: cadeau, kado (superseded, informal)
      - Afrikaans: kado
      - → Aukan: kado
      - → Caribbean Hindustani: kádo
      - → Indonesian: kado
      - → Javanese: ꦏꦝꦺꦴ (kadho)
      - → Saramaccan: kadó
      - → Sranan Tongo: kado
    - → Hausa: kado
    - → Lombard: cadò
    - → Moroccan Arabic: كادو (kādu)
    - → Persian: کادو (kâdo)
    - → Romanian: cadou
- → Spanish: capitel
Old Spanish: cabdiello, capdiello
- Spanish: caudillo, cabdillo (obsolete)
  - → Catalan: cabdill (from obsolete form cabdillo)
  - → English: caudillo
  - → French: caudillo
  - → Portuguese: caudilho
  - → Russian: кауди́льо (kaudílʹo)
Padanian:
- Emilian:
- Ligurian:
- Piedmontese:
- Romagnol: cavdël
Portuguese: cabedelo, coudel
Romanian: căpețel
→ Russian: капите́ль (kapitélʹ)
Sardinian: cabitéllu
Sicilian: capiteḍḍu
Translingual: Capitella

References

“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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