The story
- Italian · derived fromcapriccioso
- Middle French · borrowed fromcapricieux
- English todaycapricious
Borrowed from Middle French capricieux, from Italian capriccioso, from capriccio. By surface analysis, caprice + -ious.
Words from the same roots
Italiancapriccioso all →
capriccioso
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.