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Sicilian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin capistrum. Cognate with Italian capestro.
Noun
crapistu m needs inflection
- halter (of animals)
- Synonyms: capizza, strincituri, tistali, capizzuni, suattu
a. 1368, De Cruyllis–Spatafora, “lu modu di piglari di infrinari e di adumari li cavalli”, in Libru di la Mascalchia , translation of De Medicina equorum by Giordano Ruffo, page 10r:Prisu e misuli lu capistru in testa minissi ad unu locu ki si adusi ad adumari […]- After taking and attaching the halter to its head, it shall be brought in a place suitable for taming.
- noose (around one's neck)
- Synonym: chiaccu di furca
References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 1236: “la cavezza” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “crapistu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 1009–1010
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “crapistu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 351
- Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “crapistu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 214