capitellum

English

Etymology

Latin capitellum. Doublet of caddie, cadel, cadet, capital, caudillo, and Kadet.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɛləm

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

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
      - Afrikaans: kado
      - → Aukan: kadoo
      - → Caribbean Hindustani: kádo
      - → Indonesian: kado
      - → Javanese: ꦏꦝꦺꦴ (kadho)
- → Spanish: capitel
Old Spanish: cabdiello, capdiello
- Spanish: caudillo, cabdillo
  - → Catalan: cabdill (from obsolete form cabdillo)
  - → English: caudillo
  - → French: caudillo
  - → Portuguese: caudilho
  - → Russian: кауди́льо (kaudílʹo)
Padanian:
- Emilian:
- Ligurian:
- Piedmontese:
- Romagnol: cavdël
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 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.

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