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Latin
Etymology
From capillus + -ātus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
capillātus (feminine capillāta, neuter capillātum, comparative capillātior); first/second-declension adjective
- Having hair, hairy.
3rd or 4th c. CE, (Pseudo-)Cato,
Disticha Catonis 2.26:
- Rem tibi quam nōscēs aptam dīmittere nōlī:
Fronte capillātă, post est occāsiŏ calva.- Do not abandon something you know is suitable to you: opportunity has hair on its front, and is bald behind.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “capillatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “capillatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- capillatus 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)
- capillatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.