English

Alternative forms

• capuccio

Noun

cappuccio ‎(plural cappuccios or cappucci)

1. A hood, especially of a cloak; a capuche.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:

     Next after him went Doubt, who was yclad / In a discolour'd cote of straunge disguyse, / That at his backe a brode Capuccio had, / And sleeves dependaunt Albanesè-wyse […].

   • 1988, Christiansen, Kanter & Strehlke (Eds.), Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500, p. 171:

     Instead of a cappuccio, he wears a hat.

   • 1991, James North, A History of the Church, p. 388:

     Within the Franciscans, a reformist group split off from the order in 1529 to restore the rigor of the original Rule of St. Francis, even to the point of emulating his four-cornered hood, called a cappuccio.

Italian

Etymology

cappa ‎(“coat, hood”) +‎ -uccio

Noun

cappuccio m ‎(plural cappucci)

1. hood
2. cowl (of a monk)
3. top (of a pen or biro)
4. (informal) cappuccino

Descendants

• French: capuchon
• Spanish: capucho