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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.

căpillĭtĭum, ii, n. [capillus], the hair, collect., Cels. 4, 2; App. M. 2, p. 115; Mart. Cap. 4, § 331.

1. căpillor, v. capillatus.

‡ 2. capillor, species stativi auguril, cum auspicato arbor capitur et consecratur Jovis fulguri, Serv ad Verg A. 10, 423.

* căpillōsus, a, um, adj. [capillus], full of hair, very hairy: sedimen, Cael. Aur. Tard. 5, 4, 67.

* căpillŭlus, i, m. dim. [capillus]. fine, soft hair, Corn. Gall. 6.

căpillus, i, m. (căpillum, i, n., Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 97, acc to Non. p. 198, 20) [a dim. form, akin to caput and Gr. κεφαλή; lit., adj. sc. crinis].

  1. I. Lit., the hair of the head, the hair (while crinis is any hair).
    1. A. Collect. (hence, acc. to Varr, ap. Charis. p. 80 P. in his time used only in the sing.; but the plur is found once in Cic., and since the Aug. poets very freq.) capillus passus, prolixus, circum caput Rejectus neglegenter, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 49; cf. id. Phorm. 1, 2, 56: versipellis, Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 48: compositus (or -um, acc. to Non. l. l.), id. Most. 1, 3, 97; Ter Eun. 4, 3, 4 Ruhnk.; 5, 2, 21: compositus et delibutus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 135: horridus, id. Sest. 8, 19: promissus, long hair, Caes. B. G. 5, 14: longus barbaque promissa, Nep. Dat. 3, 1: horrens. Tac. G. 38: ornatus, Prop. 1, 2, 1: tonsus, Ov. M. 8, 151: niger, Hor. A. P. 37: albus, id. Epod. 17, 23: albescens, id. C. 3, 14, 25: fulvus, Ov. M. 12, 273 (opp. barba): virgines tondebant barbam et capillum patris, Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58: capillum et barbam promisisse, Liv. 6, 16, 4; Plin. 11, 39, 94, § 231.
    2. B. A hair (sing. very rare): in imaginem capilli unius sat multorum, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 11, 29.
      So plur. (freq.), Cic. Pis. 11, 25; Prop. 1, 15, 11; 3 (4), 6, 9; Hor. C. 1, 12, 41; 1, 29, 7; 2, 11, 15; 3, 20, 14; Quint. 8, 2, 7; 11, 3, 160 (in Ov. M. alone more than fifty times).
  2. II. Transf.
    1. A. The hair of men gen., both of the head and beard: Dionysius cultros metuens tonsorios, candente carbone sibi adurebat capillum, Cic. Off. 2, 7, 25 Beier (cf. id. Tusc. 5, 20, 58: ut barbam et capillum sibi adurerent): ex barbā capillos detonsos neglegimus, Sen. Ep. 92, 34; Suet. Ner. 1.
    2. B. The hair of animals: cuniculi, Cat. 25, 1: apum, Col. 9, 10, 1; Pall. Jun. 7, 7: haedi, Gell. 12, 1, 15: membranae, Pers. 3, 10; cf. Macr. S. 5, 11.
    3. C. The threads or fibres of plants, Phn. 21, 6, 17, § 33: capillus in rosā, id. 21, 18, 73, § 121; hence, capillus Veneris, a plant, also called herba capillaris, maidenhair, App. Herb. 47.