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)
- (palynology) The thick wall on the proximal side of the corpus of a pollen grain.
Related terms
- cappa magna
- cappula
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
cappa (plural cappas)
- (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.
- 2010, Janey Lee Grace, Look Great Naturally...Without Ditching the Lipstick, page 211:
Anagrams
- AACPP
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkap.pa/
- Homophone: kappa
- Rhymes: -appa
- Hyphenation: càp‧pa
Etymology 1
From Late Latin cappa.
Noun
cappa f (plural cappe)
- sleeveless coat; cloak
- cowl, hood
- tarpaulin
- cape
Derived terms
- cappotto (“overcoat”)
Related terms
- cappella
- cappello
- scappare
Descendants
- → Aromanian: capã
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Late Latin cappa, from Ancient Greek κάππα (káppa).
Noun
cappa m or f (invariable)
- 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, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta
Further reading
- cappa1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- cappa3 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Alternative forms
- capa
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?].
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkap.pa/, [ˈkäpːä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkap.pa/, [ˈkäpːä]
Noun
cappa f (genitive cappae); first declension
- (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
- cappellus
- *excappō
Descendants
- → English: cappa (learned)
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Italian: cappa
- → Aromanian: capã
- Sicilian: cappa
- Italian: 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
- Spanish: capa
- Old Portuguese: 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
- Swedish: kappa
- → Old Swedish: kappa
- → Norwegian: kappe
- → Old English: cæppe
- Middle English: cappe, cap, cape, cep
- English: cap
- Scots: kep
- Middle English: cappe, cap, cape, cep
- → 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)
- Middle High German: kappe
- → 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)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkapa/ [ˈka.pa]
- Rhymes: -apa
- Syllabification: cap‧pa
Noun
cappa f (plural cappas)
- kappa; the Greek letter Κ, κ
- Synonym: kappa
Further reading
- “cappa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014