capitellum

English

Etymology

Latin capitellum

Noun

capitellum (plural capitella)

(botany, anatomy, arachnology) Synonym of capitulum

Anagrams

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Latin

Etymology

Found in Late Latin. From capitulum.

Noun

capitellum n (genitive capitellī); second declension

(Late Latin) small head
(Late Latin) capital or chapiter of a column

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	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
    - → Danish: cadeau
    - → Dutch: cadeau
      - → Indonesian: kado
- → Spanish: capitel
Old Spanish: cabdiello
- Spanish: caudillo
  - → Catalan: cabdill (from obsolete form cabdillo)
  - → English: caudillo
  - → French: caudillo
  - → Portuguese: caudilho
Portuguese: cabedelo, coudel
Romanian: căpețel
→ Russian: капите́ль (kapitélʹ)
Sardinian: cabitéllu
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, 1883–1887)
capitellum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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