capsus

== Latin == === Etymology === See capsa. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkap.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkap.sus] === Noun === capsus m (genitive capsī); second declension coach trunk (or rather capsum) Synonym: ploxenum an enclosure for wild animals (also considered corrupt for pāscuum or cāvea; however the existence of such a term is required by masculine Aramaic קַפְצָא (qap̄əṣā) / ܩܰܦܣܳܐ (qap̄əsā) / ܩܰܦܨܳܐ (qap̄əṣā), Arabic قَفَص (qafaṣ); note also Galician couso (“trap for wolves”)) Synonym: saeptum (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) church nave (or rather capsum) (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) ribcage; thorax (or rather capsum; Italian casso) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === Further reading === Delz, Josef (1970), “capsus: Zu Velleius Paterculus 1, 16, 2”, in Museum Helveticum‎[1], volume 27, number 1 “capsus” in volume 3, part 1, column 363a, in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present "capsus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “capsus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “capsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press