capitalis

From caput (“head”) +‎ -ālis.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka.piˈtaː.lis/, [käpɪˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.piˈta.lis/, [käpiˈt̪äːlis]

capitālis (neuter capitāle, comparative capitālior); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (relational) of the head or life
2. dangerous, which concerns the life or death

   Synonyms: anceps, perīculōsus, dubius, īnfēnsus

3. deadly, mortal

   Synonyms: lētālis, pestifer

4. excellent

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• capital

• “capitalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “capitalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• capitalis
• capitalis 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)
• capitalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be separated by a deadly hatred: capitali odio dissidere ab aliquo (De Am. 1. 2)
    
  • to charge some one with a capital offence: accusare aliquem rei capitalis (rerum capitalium)
    
• “capitalis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “capitalis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin