cappuccio

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian cappuccio.

Noun

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cappuccio (plural cappuccios or cappucci)

  1. A hood, especially of a cloak; a capuche.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      Next after him went Doubt, who was yclad / In a discolour'd cote of straunge disguyse, / That at his backe a brode Capuccio had, / And sleeves dependaunt Albanesè-wyse […].
    • 1988, Christiansen, Kanter & Strehlke (Eds.), Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500, p. 171:
      Instead of a cappuccio, he wears a hat.
    • 1991, James North, A History of the Church, page 388:
      Within the Franciscans, a reformist group split off from the order in 1529 to restore the rigor of the original Rule of St. Francis, even to the point of emulating his four-cornered hood, called a cappuccio.

Further reading

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  • cappuccio”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Italian

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From cappa (coat, hood) +‎ -uccio.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kapˈput.t͡ʃo/
  • Rhymes: -uttʃo
  • Hyphenation: cap‧pùc‧cio

Noun

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cappuccio m (plural cappucci)

  1. hood
  2. cowl (of a monk)
  3. top (of a pen or biro)
  4. (informal) cappuccino
  5. cabbage

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