capistrum

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin capistrum. Doublet of capstan. === Noun === capistrum (plural capistra) (historical) Synonym of phorbeia. === Anagrams === trap music == Latin == === Etymology === From capi(ō) (“seize”) + -trum. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaˈpɪs.trũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kaˈpis.trum] === Noun === capistrum n (genitive capistrī); second declension halter, headstall, harness ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== === 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