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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkap.pa]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkap.pa]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''cappa''' ''f'' (genitive cappae); first declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ The origin is uncertain.^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline) The leading theory, reported by Wiktionary, takes it as a shortening of [[capitulāre]], from [[caput]] “head”.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's first source is Gregory of Tours, whom he dates 538/539–594 AD.^(Köbler 2010) Isidore of Seville uses it of a kind of head covering.^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ In Late Latin it meant a kind of head covering, as in Isidore of Seville, and a hooded cloak.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Etymonline) In Ecclesiastical Latin it was a large cloak.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it was a cape or cloak, usually with a hood, worn by laymen, women and clergy.^(DMLBS)
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+ It survives in Italian ''cappa'', Spanish and Portuguese ''capa'' and Old French ''chape''.^(Wiktionary) Late Old English borrowed it as ''cæppe'', the source of [[en|cap]], and [[en|cape]] came in the late 16th century through French from Spanish ''capa''.^(Etymonline) A Vulgar Latin *excappāre, literally “to get out of one's cape”, gave [[en|escape]] about 1300.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 538/539–594 AD – Gregory of Tours uses it.^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore of Seville uses it of a head covering.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1300 – English ''escape'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ * late 16th century – English ''cape'' (the garment) is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A head covering; a hooded [[m|en|cloak]].^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Etymonline)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|cape]], cloak.^(DMLBS)^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[*excappāre]]
+ * [[cappella]]
+ * [[cappellus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[caput]]
+ * [[en|cap]]
+ * [[en|cape]]
+ * [[en|escape]]
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+ ==Usage notes==
+ An indeclinable ''cappa'' was the name of the Greek letter kappa, as in Ausonius.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}