Learned borrowing fromLate Latin cappa .Doublet ofcapa andcape .
cappa (plural cappae )
( palynology ) Thethick wall on theproximal side of thecorpus of apollen grain .(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
cappa (plural cappas )
( colloquial ) Acappuccino .2010 , Janey Lee Grace,Look Great Naturally...Without Ditching the Lipstick , page211 :I tend to like lattes orcappas , and have been known to have two or three a day, usually when I'm stressed.
FromLate Latin cappa .
cappa f (plural cappe )
sleevelesscoat ;cloak cowl ,hood tarpaulin cape Borrowed fromLate Latin cappa , fromAncient Greek κάππα ( káppa ) .
cappa m or f (invariable )
The name of theLatin-script letterK /k . ;kay ( 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 cappa1 in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line , Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italianacappa3 in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line , Istituto dell'Enciclopedia ItalianaOf disputed origin; the leading theory is that it is perhaps a shortened form ofcapitulāre , fromcaput ( “ head ” ) .
cappa f (genitive cappae ) ;first declension
( Late Latin ) cape ,cloak ( usu. with ahood ) raincape orriding cloak( Medieval Latin ) cope ( a long, rich ceremonial vestment ) ( Medieval Latin ) headwear ,cap ( transferred ) theuppermost orprotective part of anyassembly First-declension noun.
Italo-Romance: North Italian: 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 Old Spanish:capa → English:cappa ( learned ) → Middle English:cope ,cape ,coope → Proto-West Germanic:*kappā (see there for further descendants )→ Greek:κάπα ( kápa ) → Old Norse:kápa → Polish:kapa → Serbo-Croatian:kapa → Lower Sorbian:kapa "cappa ", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium 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 ”, inDictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources [1] , London:Oxford University Press for theBritish Academy ,→ISBN ,→OCLC FromProto-West Germanic *kappā , fromLate Latin cappa .Doublet ofcæppe .
cappa m
a longtunic with ahood ;huke Weakn -stem:
IPA (key ) : /ˈkapa/ [ˈka.pa] Rhymes:-apa Syllabification:cap‧pa cappa f (plural cappas )
kappa ; the Greek letterΚ ,κ Synonym: kappa