The corpus record — Latin

capillatus

capillatus · P. a

having hair

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Where it lives

Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Satyricon 5 · 1.64/10k
De Lege Agraria 1 · 0.73/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

căpillātus — Lewis & Short

căpillātus, a, um, P. a. of capillor, not in use,

I having hair, hairy (cf. barbatus): adulescens bene capillatus, with a fine head of hair, Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 58; Suet. Vesp. 23: capillatior quam ante, Cic. Agr. 2, 5, 13.— As a designation of a primitive age (since the hair was not then shorn; v. barba and barbatus): (vinum) capillato diffusum consule, i.e. very old wine, Juv 5, 30.—Prov.: fronte capillată, post est occasio calva, Cato, Dist. 2, 26; cf. Phaedr. 5, 8, 1 sqq.—Subst.: căpillāti, ōrum, m., young aristocrats, Mart. 3, 57, 31.—

B Capillata vel capillaris arbor, a tree on which the Vestal virgins suspended their shorn hair, Paul. ex Fest. p. 57 Müll.; cf. Plin. 16, 44, 85, § 235.—

II Transf., of plants, consisting of slender fibres: radices, Plin. 19, 6, 31, § 98: folia, id. 16, 24, 38, § 90.

In the wild

capillati Petronius, Satyricon 70
Capillati Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.5.p4
capillatus Petronius, Satyricon 57
capillati Martial, Epigrammata 10.62.2
capillatus Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 23.4
capillatus Cicero, De Lege Agraria 2.59

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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