cappa

See also: Cappa and čáppa

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæpə/
• Rhymes: -æpə
• Homophone: kappa

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Late Latin cappa. Doublet of capa and cape.

Noun

cappa (plural cappae)

1. (palynology) The thick wall on the proximal side of the corpus of a pollen grain.

Related terms

• cappula

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

cappa (plural cappas)

1. (colloquial) A cappuccino.
   • 2010, Janey Lee Grace, Look Great Naturally...Without Ditching the Lipstick, page 211:

     I tend to like lattes or cappas, and have been known to have two or three a day, usually when I'm stressed.

Anagrams

• AACPP

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkap.pa/
• Homophone: kappa
• Rhymes: -appa
• Hyphenation: càp‧pa

Etymology 1

From Late Latin cappa.

Noun

cappa f (plural cappe)

1. sleeveless coat; cloak
2. cowl, hood
3. tarpaulin
4. cape

Derived terms

• cappotto (“overcoat”)

Related terms

• cappella
• cappello
• scappare

Descendants

• → Aromanian: capã

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek κάππα (káppa).

Noun

cappa m or f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter K.; kay

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon, zeta

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Latin

Etymology

Disputed. The leading theory is that it is perhaps the shortened form of capitulāre (“head tax”), from caput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *káput-. Another theory derives it from Ancient Greek [Term?].

Alternative forms

• capa

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkap.pa/, [ˈkäpːä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkap.pa/, [ˈkäpːä]

Noun

cappa f (genitive cappae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) cape, sleeveless coat

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cappa	cappae
Genitive	cappae	cappārum
Dative	cappae	cappīs
Accusative	cappam	cappās
Ablative	cappā	cappīs
Vocative	cappa	cappae

Derived terms

• cappella
• capellus (Medieval Latin)
• *cappellus (Vulgar Latin)
• *excappō (Vulgar Latin)

Descendants

• → English: cappa (learned)
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: cappa
    • → Aromanian: capã
  • Sicilian: cappa
• Old French: chape, cape
  • French: chape
  • → Middle English: chape, schape
    • English: chape
  • →⇒ Russian: шапка (šapka) (see there for further descendants)
• Old Occitan: capa
  • Catalan: capa
  • Occitan: capa
  • → French: cape
    • → English: cape (see there for further descendants)
    • → Romanian: capă
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: cape
• Venetian: capa
• West Iberian
  • Old Portuguese: capa
    • Galician: capa
    • Portuguese: capa
  • Old Spanish: capa
    • Spanish: capa
      • → English: capa

Borrowings

• English: cappa
• Greek: κάπα (kápa)
• Lower Sorbian: kapa
• Middle Dutch: cappe
  • Dutch: kap (see there for further descendants)
• Middle English: cope, cape, coope
  • English: cope
  • Scots: caip, cape, cap
• Middle Low German: kappe
  • → Old Swedish: kappa
    • Swedish: kappa
      • → Finnish: kappa
• Norwegian: kappe
• Old English: cæppe
  • Middle English: cappe, cap, cape, cep
    • English: cap
    • Scots: kep
• Old High German: kappa
  • Middle High German: kappe
    • German: Kappe
    • ⇒ Alemannic German: Käppi (diminutive)
      • → French: képi (see there for further descendants)
      • → German: Käppi
    • ⇒ Cimbrian: kèpple (diminutive)
• Old Norse: kápa
  • Danish: kåbe
  • Icelandic: kápa
  • Norwegian: kåpe
  • Swedish: kåpa
• Serbo-Croatian: kapa

References

• cappa 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)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkapa/, [ˈka.pa]

Noun

cappa f (plural cappas)

1. kappa; the Greek letter Κ, κ

   Synonym: kappa