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căpillācĕus, a, um, adj. [capillus], hairy.

  1. I. Similar to hair, like hair: coma arboris, Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 114: folium, id. 13, 25, 48, § 136.
  2. II. Made of hair: zona, Aug. Civ. Dei, 22, 8.

* căpillāgo, ĭnis, f. [capillus], the hair, collect., Tert. Anim. 51.

căpillāmentum, i, n. [capillus].

  1. I. The hair, collect., Plin. 16, 10, 16, § 38; esp. false hair, a peruke, Suet. Calig. 11; Petr. 110, 5, Tert. Cult. Fem. 7.
  2. II. Transf.
    1. A. The hairy threads or fibres of the roots or leaves of plants, etc.: capillamenta vitis, Sen. Ep. 86, 20: seminum, Col. 4, 11, 1; 4, 22, 4: radicum, Plin. 19, 6, 31, § 99; 27, 12, 80, § 105.
    2. B. Hair-like streaks on precious stones: rimae simile, Plin. 37, 2, 10, § 28; 37, 5, 18, § 68.

căpillāris, e, adj. [capillus],

  1. I. of or pertaining to the hair: herba, the plant otherwise called Capillus Veneris, App. Herb. 47: arbor, = arbor capillata; v. capillatus, Paul. ex Fest. p. 57 Müll.
  2. II. Subst.: căpillāre, is, n. (sc. unguentum), an unguent for the hair, pomatum, Mart. 3, 82, 28.

căpillātĭo, ōnis, f. [capillatus].

  1. I. Prop., the being hairy; and then per meton., the hair, Paul. Nol. Ep. ad Sev. 23, 23.
  2. II. A disease of the urinary organs; Gr. τριχίασις, Cael. Aur. Tard. 5, 4, 60.

căpillātūra, ae, f. [capillatus], prop.,

  1. I. the being hairy; and then per meton., the hair; esp. false hair (post-Aug.), Plin. 37, 11, 73, § 190; Tert. Cult. Fem. 7; Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 1, 35; id. Acut. 1, 4, 79; 2, 9, 41.
  2. II. Transf., the hair-like streaks in precious stones, Plin. 37, 11, 73, § 190.

căpillātus, a, um, P. a. of capillor, not in use,

  1. I. having hair, hairy (cf. barbatus): adulescens bene capillatus, with a fine head of hair, Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 58; Suet. Vesp. 23: capillatior quam ante, Cic. Agr. 2, 5, 13.
    As a designation of a primitive age (since the hair was not then shorn; v. barba and barbatus): (vinum) capillato diffusum consule, i.e. very old wine, Juv 5, 30.
    Prov.: fronte capillată, post est occasio calva, Cato, Dist. 2, 26; cf. Phaedr. 5, 8, 1 sqq.
    Subst.: căpillāti, ōrum, m., young aristocrats, Mart. 3, 57, 31.
    1. B. Capillata vel capillaris arbor, a tree on which the Vestal virgins suspended their shorn hair, Paul. ex Fest. p. 57 Müll.; cf. Plin. 16, 44, 85, § 235.
  2. II. Transf., of plants, consisting of slender fibres: radices, Plin. 19, 6, 31, § 98: folia, id. 16, 24, 38, § 90.