capitellum
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin capitellum. Doublet of caddie, cadel, cadet, capital, caudillo, and Kadet.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɛləm
Noun edit
capitellum (plural capitella)
- (botany, anatomy, arachnology) Synonym of capitulum
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Found in Late Latin. From capitulum.
Noun edit
capitellum n (genitive capitellī); second declension
- (Late Latin) small head
- (Late Latin) capital or chapiter of a column
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | capitellum | capitella |
Genitive | capitellī | capitellōrum |
Dative | capitellō | capitellīs |
Accusative | capitellum | capitella |
Ablative | capitellō | capitellīs |
Vocative | capitellum | capitella |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: cabdell
- → English: capitellum, capitellar, capitellate
- → German: Kapitell
- Italian: capitello
- → Portuguese: capitel
- → Norwegian: kapitel, kapitél
- Old French: chapitel
- Old Occitan: cabdel, capitel
- Old Spanish: cabdiello, capdiello
- Padanian:
- Emilian:
- Ligurian:
- Piedmontese:
- Romagnol: cavdël
- Portuguese: cabedelo, coudel
- Romanian: căpețel
- → Russian: капите́ль (kapitélʹ)
- Sardinian: cabitéllu
- Translingual: Capitella
References edit
- “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.