Capitolinus

From Capitōlium (“Capitoline Hill”) +‎ -īnus (“-ine”, -ine: forming adjectives), from the oblique stem of caput (“head”) + -ō (“forming nouns”) or -ōlus (“-ole: forming diminutives”) + -ium (“forming location names”). As a proper noun, a clipping of Mons or Clivus Capitolinus (“Capitoline Hill”). As a cognomen, usually taken to be in reference to Marcus Manlius Capitolinus's legendary victory at the Capitoline Hill over an invasion by the Gauls in 390 BC although Mommsen believed it more likely in reference to the location of the family house (domus).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka.pi.toːˈliː.nus/, [käpɪt̪oːˈlʲiːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.pi.toˈli.nus/, [käpit̪oˈliːnus]

Capitōlīnus (feminine Capitōlīna, neuter Capitōlīnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Capitoline

   quercus Capitōlīna

   Capitoline oak, a garland of oak-leaves awarded in the Capitoline games

First/second-declension adjective.

Capitōlīnus m sg (genitive Capitōlīnī); second declension

1. Synonym of Capitōlium, the Capitoline Hill
2. Capitoline, an epithet of Jupiter in reference to his temple on the Capitoline Hill
3. (chiefly in the plural) One of the Capitolini, the priests who directed the Capitoline Games
4. A Roman cognomen of the gens Manlia

   Marcus Manlius Capitolinus

    

Second-declension noun.

• English: Capitoline
• Italian: capitolino
• → Koine Greek: Καπετώλιος (Kapetṓlios) (semi-learned)

• “Capitolinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Capitolinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Capitolinus 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)
• Capitolinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 260.
• Capitolinus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 981
• “Capitolinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers