capitium

See also: Capitium

Latin

Etymology

From caput +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈpi.ti.um/, [käˈpɪt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈpit.t͡si.um/, [käˈpit̪ː͡s̪ium]

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).

Case	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
• Galician: cabeza
• Italian: cavezza, capezza, cavezzo, capezzo
• Occitan: cabeç, cabeça
• Old Provençal: cabeissa
• Portuguese: cabeça, cabeço
• Romanian: căpețea
• Romansch: chavezza
• Sicilian: capizzu, capizza, cavizza
• Spanish: cabeza, cabezo
• Venetian: 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