capitellum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capitellum, diminuitive of Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head), itself from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Doublet of caddie, cadel, cadet, capital, caudillo, and Kadet.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛləm

Noun

capitellum (plural capitella)

1. (botany, anatomy, arachnology) Synonym of capitulum

Anagrams

• multiplace

Latin

Etymology

From capitulum +‎ -lus or caput +‎ -ellus.

Noun

capitellum n (genitive capitellī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. diminutive of caput (“head”): small head
2. capital or chapiter of a column

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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
      • Haitian Creole: kado
      • → Danish: cadeau
      • → Dutch: cadeau, kado (superseded, informal)
        • Afrikaans: kado
        • → Aukan: kado
        • → Caribbean Hindustani: kádo
        • → Indonesian: kado
        • → Javanese: ꦏꦝꦺꦴ (kadho)
        • → Saramaccan: kadó
        • → Sranan Tongo: kado
      • → Hausa: kado
      • → Lombard: cadò
      • → Moroccan Arabic: كادو (kādu)
      • → Persian: کادو (kâdo)
      • → Romanian: cadou
  • → 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)
• Padanian:
  • Emilian:
  • Ligurian:
  • Piedmontese:
  • Romagnol: cavdël
• Portuguese: cabedelo, coudel
• Romanian: căpețel
• → Russian: капите́ль (kapitélʹ)
• Sardinian: cabitéllu
• Sicilian: capiteḍḍu
• 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.