capulus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === capulum === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *kapelos. Synchronically from capiō +‎ -ulus. Active interpretation of the suffix leads to the first, passive interpretation to the second meaning. === Noun === capulus m (genitive capulī); second declension sarcophagus tomb handle, hilt (of a sword) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Old French: cableFrench: câble (see there for further descendants)→ Middle English: cable (see there for further descendants) Italian: cappio Portuguese: cabo Sicilian: chiaccu Spanish: cápulo === References === “capulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “capulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "capulus", 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) “capulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “capulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “capulus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin