Where does “screwcapped” come from?
screwcapped (English) comes from English capped, from English Cap, from English Capricorn, from French Capricorne, from Latin Capricornus, from Latin caper, from Proto-Italic *kapros, from Proto-Indo-European kápros — he-goat, billy goat.
screwcapped (English): Fitted with a screw cap
Definitions
- Fitted with a screw cap
Ancestry of “screwcapped”, step by step
screwcapped traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English capped
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | capped | simple past tense and past participle of cap |
| 2 | English | Cap | A nickname for the captain of a team, ship, etc |
| 3 | English | Capricorn | Someone with a Capricorn star sign |
| 4 | French | Capricorne | Capricorn |
| 5 | Latin | Capricornus | Capricornus, the constellation of the zodiac |
| 6 | Latin | caper | a male goat, billy goat; vocative singular of... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *kapros | he-goat |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kápros | he-goat, billy goat |
via English screw
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | screw | A device that has a helical function; The motion... |
| 2 | Middle English | screw | — |
| 3 | Old French | escroue | nut, cylindrical socket, screwhole; scroll, strip... |
| 4 | Latin | scrofa | sow |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kerbʰ- | to scratch, scrape |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ker- | to cut off; to turn, bend |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sek- | to cut, cut off, sever |