Etymograph

English

capreolate

Capreolate comes from Latin capreolus ‘wild goat, tendril’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *kápros.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kápros1‘buck, he-goat’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kapros1‘he-goat’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcaper2‘goat’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcapreolus2‘wild goat, tendril’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcapreolātus2
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1917capreolate2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin caper
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English capreolate
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1917, Linnean Society of London, The Journal of the Linnean Society: “The Section Grandiflora, representing the Agraric and Capreolata of…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*káprosWiktionary, Latin caper‘buck, he-goat’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kaprosWiktionary, Latin caper‘he-goat’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcaperWiktionary, English capreolate‘goat’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcapreolusWiktionary, English capreolate‘wild goat, tendril’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcapreolātusWiktionary, English capreolate
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1917capreolateWiktionary, English capreolate. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1917, Linnean Society of London, The Journal of the Linnean Society: “The Section Grandiflora, representing the Agraric and Capreolata of…”

Linked words

through Latin caper ‘goat’

chevron, 14 more

through Latin capreolus ‘wild goat, tendril’

cabriolet, 2 more

Today it means

adj Having a tendril or tendrils.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “capreolate”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin caper. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *kápros / capreolate

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