capillo

capillo (plural capillos)

1. hair (individual strand)

capillō m

1. dative/ablative singular of capillus (“hair”)

Inherited from Latin capillus.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [kaˈpillə]
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key): [kaˈpiddə]

capillo m (plural capille)

1. hair of the mass growing on the top of the human head

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 95: “i capelli; il capello” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Inherited from Old Spanish capiello, from Early Medieval Latin cappellus, diminutive from Late Latin cappa. Doublet of chapeo and chapó (from French) as well as capelo (from Italian). Compare English chapeau.

capillo m (plural capillos)

1. hood, especially a kind worn as a popular outfit in certain regions
2. linen cap worn by young boys, or one of white cloth worn by boys at baptism

• “capillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014