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class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="words related to Capella">Entries linking to <i>Capella</i></h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of cab" href="/word/cab#etymonline_v_538">cab<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>1826, "light, two- or four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage," a colloquial London shortening of <span class="foreign notranslate">cabriolet</span>, a type of covered horse-drawn carriage (1763), from French <span class="foreign notranslate">cabriolet</span> (18c.), diminutive of <span class="foreign notranslate">cabriole</span> "a leap, a caper," earlier <span class="foreign notranslate">capriole</span> (16c.), from Italian <span class="foreign notranslate">capriola</span> "a caper, frisk, leap," literally "a leap like that of a kid goat," from <span class="foreign notranslate">capriola</span> "a kid, a fawn," from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">capreolus</span> "wild goat, roebuck," from <span class="foreign notranslate">caper</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">capri</span> "he-goat, buck," from PIE <span class="foreign notranslate">*kap-ro-</span> "he-goat, buck" (source also of Old Irish <span class="foreign notranslate">gabor</span>, Welsh <span class="foreign notranslate">gafr</span>, Old English <span class="foreign notranslate">hæfr</span>, Old Norse <span class="foreign notranslate">hafr</span> "he-goat"). The carriages were noted for their springy suspensions.</p> <p>Originally a passenger-vehicle drawn by two or four horses; it was introduced into London from Paris in 1820. The name was extended to hansoms and other types of carriages, then to similar-looking parts of locomotives (1851). It was applied especially to public horse carriages, then to automobiles-for-hire (1899) when these began to replace them.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="8757723469" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="ngram--SmXCf"><h3 class="h3_title" title="Trends of Capella">Trends of <i>Capella</i></h3><div class="ngram__container--NwjaG" style="height:180px"><canvas id="ngram-chart"></canvas></div><div class="ngram__footer--3-9dX">adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. Ngrams are probably unreliable.</div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="More to Explore">More to Explore</h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of a cappella" href="/word/a%20cappella"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">a cappella<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">1868, earlier alla capella (1824), from Italian, "in the style of Church music, in the manner of the chapel," literally "...Sometimes in the Latin form a capella....["Chambers's Encyclopaedia," 1868] You are not the first person puzzled by the expression "A Capella," or, at any rate,...Hence they were, with perfect correctness, said to be performed "a capella."...</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of chapel" href="/word/chapel"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">chapel<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">dedicated and devoted to special services," from Old French chapele (12c., Modern French chapelle), from Medieval Latin capella...The other theory is that it comes from Medieval Latin capella in a literal sense of "canopy, hood" and is a reference to...</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="foreign" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of caper" href="/word/caper"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">caper<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">"to leap, skip, prance," 1580s, apparently short for obsolete capriole "to leap, skip," which is probably from Italian capriolare "jump in the air" (see cab). Related: Capered; capering....type of prickly Mediterranean bush, also in reference to the plant's edible buds, late 14c.</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="complete" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of proportion" href="/word/proportion"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">proportion<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">late 14c., proporcioun, "due relation of one part to another," also "size, extent; comparative relation of one thing to another in size, degree, number, etc.," from Old French proporcion "measure, proportion" (13c.) and directly from Latin proportionem (nominative proportio) "com</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="complete" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of satellite" href="/word/satellite"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">satellite<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">1540s, "follower or attendant of a superior person" (but rare in this sense before late 18c.), from French satellite (14c.), from Latin satellitem (nominative satelles) "an attendant" upon a distinguished person; 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