The story
- Latin · derived fromCapitolīnus
- English todayCapitoline
From Latin Capitolīnus (adj. & n.), from Capitolium (“Capitoline Hill”) + -inus (“-ine: forming adjectives”), from the oblique stem of caput (“head”) + -ō (“forming nouns”) or -ōlus (“-ole: forming diminutives”) + -ium (“forming location names”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.