caprinus

From capr- +‎ -īnus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈpriː.nus/, [käˈpriːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈpri.nus/, [käˈpriːnus]

caprīnus (feminine caprīna, neuter caprīnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. caprine (pertaining to goats)

First/second-declension adjective.

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: cãprinã (“goat wool”)
  • Megleno-Romanian: căprină (“goat wool”)
  • Romanian: căprină (“rugged sheep”) (obsolete)
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: caprino, caprina (various goat-related nouns)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: chevrin (“made of goat hair”)
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: cabrina (“goatskin”)
  • Old Occitan: cabrin (rel. adj.)
    • Occitan: cabrin, cabin, chabrin, chabin
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: caprí
  • → English: caprine
  • → French: caprin
  • → Portuguese: caprino
  • → Romanian: caprin
  • → Spanish: caprino

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “caprīnus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 309

• “caprinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caprinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caprinus 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)
• caprinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.