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capsa1

capsa1

case, box

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What it meant

1. capsa — de Vaan

capsa 'case, box' [f. a] (Cic.+) Derivatives: capsus 'the body (of a carriage), cage1 (Vitr,, Fest, Veil.). Pit, *kap-s-o-. carbo Probably derived as *kapso- 'container' from capio, or built directly on a Pit. s-pr. *kap-s(-e/o)-. Bibl.: WH I: 162f., EM 97, IEW 527f, LIV *keh2p-. ^ capio c3pus 'capon, castrated cock' [m. o] [Varro, Col.) A variant is capo (Mart+) or rather *cappo, as continued in Romance and … — [de Vaan, s.v. capsa, p. 104]

2. capsa — Lewis & Short

capsa, ae, f.capio; Fr. caisse; Engl. case,

I a repository, box, esp. for books, bookcase, satchel, * Cic. Div. in Caecil. 16, 51; Hor. S. 1, 4, 22; 1, 10, 63; id. Ep. 2, 1, 268; Juv. 10, 117; also for fruit, Plin. 15, 17, 18, § 65; 15, 19, 21, § 82; Mart. 11, 8.

3. Capsa — Lewis & Short

Capsa, ae, f.,

I a town in Africa, in the districl of Byzacium, surrounded by vast deserts, plundered by Marius in the Jugurthine war, Sall. J. 89, 4; 91 sq.; Flor. 3, 1, 14.—Hence,
II Capsenses, ium, m., the inhabitants of Capsa, Sall. J. 92, 3 sq.; in Plin. 5, 4, 4, § 30, called Capsĭtāni.

4. capsa — Walde–Hofmann

capsa, -ae f. „Behältnis, Kapsel, Kasten* (seit Cie., rom., ebenso -ärius m. „Kapselträger, -verfertiger, Kleideraufbewahrer, Lazarettgehilfe* seit Suet.; Demin. capsula seit Fab. Pict., -ella seit Petron., rom. ; capsilägö f. , Bilsenkraut* Plin. Val. nach tussilagö Plin., Fay KZ. 45, 116), capsus, -i m. „der kastenfórmige Hauptteil des Wagens. Käfig für wilde Tiere, Blase zum Füllsel, Kirchenschitf* (seit Verg., … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. capsa, p. 194]

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Where it came from

  • de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. capsa (scan pp. 104-105; entry #205). Root candidates: *kapso-, *keh2p-, *skaP-.
  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. capsa (scan pp. 121-122; entry #1752).
  • Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. capsa (scan pp. 194-196; entry #561). Root candidates: *gap-, *yap-, *habuda-.

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