# cappa
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkæpə/
* Rhymes: -æpə
* Homophone: kappa

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Late Latin cappa. Doublet of capa and cape.

#### Noun

cappa (plural cappae)
* (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)
* (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: /ˈkap.pa/
* Homophone: kappa
* Rhymes: -appa
* Hyphenation: càp‧pa

### Etymology 1

From Late Latin cappa.

#### Noun

cappa f (plural cappe)
* sleeveless coat; cloak
* cowl, hood
* tarpaulin
* cape

##### Derived terms

* cappotto (“overcoat”)

##### Related terms

* accappare
* cappella
* cappello
* scappare

##### Descendants

* → Aromanian: capã

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Late Latin cappa, from Ancient Greek κάππα (káppa).

#### Noun

cappa m or f (invariable)
* 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, from caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *káput-.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

cappa f (genitive cappae); first declension
* (Late Latin) cape, cloak, sleeveless coat

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### 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
** Old Swedish: kāpa
*** Swedish: kåpa
*** → Finnish: kaapu
* → 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, 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: /ˈkɑp.pɑ/

### Noun

cappa m
* a long tunic with a hood; huke

#### Declension

Weak:

#### Related terms

* cæppe

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkapa/ [ˈka.pa]
* Rhymes: -apa
* Syllabification: cap‧pa

### Noun

cappa f (plural cappas)
* kappa; the Greek letter Κ, κ
    Synonym: kappa

### Further reading

* “cappa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10