capistrum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capistrum. Doublet of capstan.

Noun

capistrum (plural capistra)

1. (historical) Synonym of phorbeia

Anagrams

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Latin

Etymology

From capi(ō) (“seize”) +‎ -trum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈpis.trum/, [käˈpɪs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈpis.trum/, [käˈpist̪rum]

Noun

capistrum n (genitive capistrī); second declension

1. halter, headstall, harness

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	capistrum	capistra
Genitive	capistrī	capistrōrum
Dative	capistrō	capistrīs
Accusative	capistrum	capistra
Ablative	capistrō	capistrīs
Vocative	capistrum	capistra

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: cãpestru
  • Romanian: căpăstru
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: capestro
  • Sicilian: capestru, crapistu
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: cjaviestri
  • ⇒ Piedmontese: cavastra
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: chevestre
    • French: chevêtre
  • Catalan: cabestre
  • Occitan: cabestre

    Nord-Occitan: chabestre; chabeitre (Vivaro-Alpine)

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: cabestro, cabresto
  • Portuguese: cabresto
  • Spanish: cabestro
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: kapistër
  • → Old English: cæfester
  • → Greek: καπίστρι (kapístri)
  • → Portuguese: capistro
  • → Welsh: cebystr

References

• “capistrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “capistrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• capistrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “capistrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “capistrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin