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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
capula (“small cup”) + -ō
Verb
capulō (present infinitive capulāre, perfect active capulāvī, supine capulātum); first conjugation
- to decant, pour
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Etymology 2
Noun
capulō
- dative/ablative singular of capulum
Etymology 3
Unknown. Perhaps from cāpō (“capon, castrated cockerel”), or capillus (“hair”), thus “shave”; alternatively from a Germanic language, as in Middle Dutch cappen (“cut”), though the latter is itself of uncertain origin.
Verb
capulō (present infinitive capulāre, perfect active capulāvī, supine capulātum); first conjugation (Medieval Latin)
- to cut off, sever
- to cut out
- to fell (a tree)
- to destroy
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References
- “capulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- capulare 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)
- capulo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- capulo in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “capulare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 139
- Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “capulo”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 98