capillatus Latin · revision 33271

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la capillus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ka.pɪlˈlaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ka.pilˈlaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''capillātus''' (feminine capillāta, neuter capillātum, comparative capillātior); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ The comparative is ''capillātior''.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|capillus|-ātus|t1=hair]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds the usual derivation of [[m|la|capillus]] from [[m|la|caput|t=head]] difficult in both form and meaning.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who describes a man with longer hair and a bigger beard than before, and Juba, a young man as well supplied with money as with hair.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means having long hair, or having hair.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Long hair marked the old days, when it was not cut: Juvenal has wine bottled when the consuls were long-haired.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It was also a feature of foreign peoples and of boys and youths, often slaves: Petronius has a bald old man playing ball among long-haired boys.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder names a tree ''capillāta'' because the Vestals' hair was brought to it, and uses the word of hair-like leaves.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein notes that [[capillus]] is the hair of the head, as opposed to the beard.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of long hair.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius, of long-haired boys.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of a tree and of hair-like leaves.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal, of the long-haired consuls of old.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Having [[m|en|hair]], [[m|en|long-haired]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of leaves or roots, hair-like.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[capillus]]

+ * [[comātus]]

+ * [[crīnītus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}