capelo

From Old Portuguese capelo, from Vulgar Latin *cappellus (“hat”), from Late Latin cappa. Compare chapeu / chapeo, which came through French.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpelo̝/

capelo m (plural capelos)

1. (botany) navelwort, pennywort (Umbilicus rupestris)

   Synonyms: conchelo, couselo

2. (archaic) helmet
   • 1290, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 138:

     mando a Ares d'Alcantara o meu perponto, o meu lorigon, a ma gorgeyra τ cen mr. da guerra en dineyros polo que deleſ oue τ o meu capelo do fferro

     I left Ares d'Alcántara my padded jerkin, my mail, my gorget, a hundred maravedis of war for what I had of them, and my iron helmet

   Synonyms: capacete, elmo

3. hood

• chapeu (“hat”)

• “capelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “capelo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “capelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “capelo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “capelo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Probably from Old Portuguese capelo, from Vulgar Latin *cappellus (“hat”)[1][2][3], from Late Latin cappa, or less likely through Italian cappello[4] (although this probably applies in the sense of a cardinal's red hat). Doublet of chapéu, which came through French.

capelo m (plural capelos)

1. cowl (monk’s hood)
2. red hat worn by cardinals, or a galero (hat worn by clergy)
3. knit cap worn by nuns or widows
4. dossel
5. one with a doctorate
6. a type of fish

• capa

• capuz

Borrowed from Italian cappello, from Vulgar Latin *cappellus. Doublet of capillo, which was inherited, and of chapeo and chapó, from French.

capelo m (plural capelos)

1. red hat worn by cardinals