cappuccio

See also: Cappuccio

English

Alternative forms

• capuccio

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cappuccio.

Noun

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

• “cappuccio”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Italian

Etymology

From cappa (“coat, hood”) +‎ -uccio.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cappuccio m (plural cappucci)

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

Derived terms

• cappuccino
• scappucciare

Descendants

• → French: capuchon
  • → Hebrew: קַפּוּצ׳וֹן (kapuchón)
  • → Dutch: capuchon
  • → Russian: капюшо́н (kapjušón)
  • → Swedish: kapuschong
  • → Turkish: kapüşon
• → Spanish: capucho
• → Serbo-Croatian: kapuljača
• → Portuguese: capucho