capulus

• capulum

From capiō +‎ -ulus. Active interpretation of the suffix leads to the first, passive interpretation to the second meaning.

capulus m (genitive capulī); second declension

1. sarcophagus, bier, sepulchre, tomb
2. handle, hilt (of a sword)

Second-declension noun.

• Italian: cappio
• Portuguese: cabo
• Sicilian: chiaccu
• Spanish: cápulo

• “capulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “capulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• capulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• capulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “capulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “capulus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin