capitellum

English

Etymology

Latin capitellum

Noun

capitellum (plural capitella)

1. (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

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

Declension

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

• 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, capdiello
  • Spanish: caudillo, cabdillo (obsolete)
    • → Catalan: cabdill (from obsolete form cabdillo)
    • → English: caudillo
    • → French: caudillo
    • → Portuguese: caudilho
    • → Russian: кауди́льо (kaudílʹo)
• Portuguese: cabedelo, coudel
• Romanian: căpețel
• → Russian: капите́ль (kapitélʹ)
• Sardinian: cabitéllu
• Translingual: Capitella, 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 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.