cappuccio
See also: Cappuccio
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian cappuccio.
Noun edit
cappuccio (plural cappuccios or cappucci)
- A hood, especially of a cloak; a capuche.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Next after him went Doubt, who was yclad / In a discolour'd cote of straunge disguyse, / That at his backe a brode Capuccio had, / And sleeves dependaunt Albanesè-wyse […].
- 1988, Christiansen, Kanter & Strehlke (Eds.), Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500, p. 171:
- Instead of a cappuccio, he wears a hat.
- 1991, James North, A History of the Church, page 388:
- Within the Franciscans, a reformist group split off from the order in 1529 to restore the rigor of the original Rule of St. Francis, even to the point of emulating his four-cornered hood, called a cappuccio.
Further reading edit
- “cappuccio”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From cappa (“coat, hood”) + -uccio.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cappuccio m (plural cappucci)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → French: capuchon
- → Hebrew: קַפּוּצ׳וֹן (kapuchón)
- → Dutch: capuchon
- → Russian: капюшо́н (kapjušón)
- → Swedish: kapuschong
- → Turkish: kapüşon[1]
- → Spanish: capucho
- → Serbo-Croatian: kapuljača
- → Portuguese: capucho