capulum

Latin

Etymology

See capulus.

Noun

capulum n (genitive capulī); second declension

1. handle
2. hilt (of a sword)
3. halter, lasso
4. bier, coffin
5. Synonym of feretrum, a funereal litter

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	capulum	capula
genitive	capulī	capulōrum
dative	capulō	capulīs
accusative	capulum	capula
ablative	capulō	capulīs
vocative	capulum	capula

Descendants

• Italian: cappio
• Old French: cable
  • French: câble (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle Dutch: cabel
    • Dutch: kabel (see there for further descendants)
    • → Norwegian: kabel
    • → Middle Low German: kabel
      • → Middle High German: kabel
        • German: Kabel (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle English: cable (see there for further descendants)
    • English: cable
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: cacho
  • Portuguese: cacho
• ⇒ Sicilian: ncacchiu (in + capulum)

Through the plural capula:

• Galician: cacha
• Spanish: cacha
• Italian: chiappa (metathesis)

References

• “capulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "capulum", 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)