cappellanus

Latin

Etymology

From cappella +‎ -ānus.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kap.pelˈlaː.nus/, [käpːɛlˈlʲäːnʊs̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kap.pelˈla.nus/, [käpːelˈläːnus]

Noun

cappellānus m (genitive cappellānī); second declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)

chaplain

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cappellānus	cappellānī
Genitive	cappellānī	cappellānōrum
Dative	cappellānō	cappellānīs
Accusative	cappellānum	cappellānōs
Ablative	cappellānō	cappellānīs
Vocative	cappellāne	cappellānī

Descendants

Catalan: capellà
- → Spanish: capellán
French: chapelain
- → English: chaplain
Italian: cappellano
- → Romanian: capelan
Occitan: capelan
- → Middle French: capelan
  - → English: capelin
- → Galician: capelán
- → Portuguese: capelão

References

cappellanus 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)

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