Where does “capsă” come from?
capsă (Romanian) comes from Romanian cap, from French cap, from Occitan cap, from Old Occitan cap, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic kaput, from Proto-Indo-European káput — to seize, hold.
capsă (Romanian): capsule
Definitions
- capsule
Ancestry of “capsă”, step by step
capsă traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian cap
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | cap | head; cape |
| 2 | French | cap | cape; head; heading |
| 3 | Occitan | cap | head; cape, headland |
| 4 | Old Occitan | cap | — |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | capus | — |
| 6 | Latin | caput | head; headlike protuberance on an organ or body... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kaput | head |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | káput | head |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kap- | to seize, hold |
via German kapsel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | kapsel | inflection of kapseln: ## first-person singular... |
| 2 | Middle High German | kapsel | — |
| 3 | Latin | capsula | small box or chest |
| 4 | Latin | Capsa | Gafsa |
| 5 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |