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)

1. (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)

1. (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.

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)

1. sleeveless coat; cloak
2. cowl, hood
3. tarpaulin
4. 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)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter K/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, cappus, capus

Etymology

Of disputed origin; the leading theory is that it is perhaps a shortened form of capitulāre (“head tax, poll tax”), from caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *káput-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkap.pa/, [ˈkäpːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkap.pa/, [ˈkäpːä]

Noun

cappa f (genitive cappae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) cape, cloak, sleeveless coat

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cappa	cappae
genitive	cappae	cappārum
dative	cappae	cappīs
accusative	cappam	cappās
ablative	cappā	cappīs
vocative	cappa	cappae

Derived terms

• *excappāre
• cappella
• cappellus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cappa
    • → Aromanian: capã
  • Sicilian: cappa
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: cape
  • Venetan: capa
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: capa
  • Old French: chape (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: capa
    • Occitan: capa
    • → French: cape (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: capa
    • Galician: capa
    • Portuguese: capa
  • Old Spanish: capa
    • Spanish: capa
      • → English: capa
• → English: cappa (learned)
• → Middle English: cope, cape, coope
  • English: cope
  • Scots: caip, cape, cap
• → Proto-West Germanic: *kappā (see there for further descendants)
• → Greek: κάπα (kápa)
• → Old Norse: kápa
  • Danish: kåbe
  • Icelandic: kápa
  • Norwegian: kåpe
  • Swedish: kåpa
• → Polish: kapa
• → Serbo-Croatian: kapa
• → Lower Sorbian: 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)
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “cappa”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kappā, from Late Latin cappa. Doublet of cæppe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑp.pɑ/

Noun

cappa m

1. a long tunic with a hood; huke

Declension

Declension of cappe (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cappe	cappan
accusative	cappan	cappan
genitive	cappan	cappena
dative	cappan	cappum

Related terms

• cæppe

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkapa/ [ˈka.pa]
• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: cap‧pa

Noun

cappa f (plural cappas)

1. kappa; the Greek letter Κ, κ

   Synonym: kappa

Further reading

• “cappa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28