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capelo

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See also: ĉapelo and capeło

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese capelo, from Early Medieval Latin cappellus (hat), diminutive from Late Latin cappa. Compare chapeu, which came through French.

Pronunciation

Noun

capelo m (plural capelos)

  1. (botany) navelwort, pennywort (Umbilicus rupestris)
    Synonyms: conchelo, couselo
  2. (archaic) helmet
    • 1290, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 138:
      mando a Ares d'Alcantara o meu perponto, o meu lorigon, a ma gorgeyra τ cen mr. da guerra en dineyros polo que deleſ oue τ o meu capelo do fferro
      I left Ares d'Alcántara my padded jerkin, my mail, my gorget, a hundred maravedis of war for what I had of them, and my iron helmet
    Synonyms: capacete, elmo
  3. hood

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