capulum

Latin

Etymology

See capulus.

Noun

capulum n (genitive capulī); second declension

handle
hilt (of a sword)
halter, lasso
bier, coffin

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	capulum	capula
Genitive	capulī	capulōrum
Dative	capulō	capulīs
Accusative	capulum	capula
Ablative	capulō	capulīs
Vocative	capulum	capula

Descendants

Italian: cappio
Old French: cable
- French: câble (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle Dutch: cabel
  - Dutch: kabel (see there for further descendants)
  - → Norwegian: kabel
  - → Middle Low German: kabel
    - → Middle High German: kabel
      - German: Kabel (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle English: cable (see there for further descendants)
  - English: cable
Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Galician: cacho
- Portuguese: cacho
Sicilian: ncacchiu (in + capulum)

Through the plural capula

Galician: cacha
Spanish: cacha

References

“capulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
capulum 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)

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