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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From capiō + -ulus. Active interpretation of the suffix leads to the first, passive interpretation to the second meaning.
Noun
capulus m (genitive capulī); second declension
- sarcophagus, bier, sepulchre, tomb
- handle, hilt (of a sword)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “capulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “capulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- capulus 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)
- capulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “capulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “capulus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin