capitium

See also: Capitium

Latin

Etymology

From caput +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaˈpɪ.ti.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kaˈpit.t͡si.um]

Noun

capitium n (genitive capitiī or capitī); second declension

1. covering for the head
2. opening in a tunic for the head
3. vestment (put on over the head)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	capitium	capitia
genitive	capitiī capitī1	capitiōrum
dative	capitiō	capitiīs
accusative	capitium	capitia
ablative	capitiō	capitiīs
vocative	capitium	capitia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Aragonese: cabeza
• Asturian: cabeza
• Catalan: cabeç, cabeça
• Old French: chevet, cavet, kevet
  • French: chevet
    • → English: chevet
  • Norman: quevet
• Friulian: cjavece
• Italian: cavezza, capezza, cavezzo, capezzo
• Mirandese: cabeça
• Romanian: căpețea
• Romansch: chavezza
• Sicilian: capizzu, capizza, cavizza
• Old Galician-Portuguese: cabeça
  • Fala: cabeza
  • Galician: cabeza
  • Portuguese: cabeça (see there for further descendants)
• Old Occitan: cabeissa
  • Occitan: cabeç, cabeça
• Old Spanish: cabeça
  • Ladino: קאב׳יסה, kavesa
  • Spanish: cabeza, cabezo
• Venetan: caveça, cavesa, cavezha

References

• “capitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "capitium", 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)
• “capitium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “capitium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “capitium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “capitium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin