Etymology

capulet

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Today it means: A member or citizen of the family, party, or country of the wife in a Romeo and Juliet couple and/or one of a pair of feuding groups, the other identified as Montague. Full definition →

Italian Capuleti
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  1. Italian · derived fromCapuleti
  2. English todayCapulet

Surname of the heroine Juliet's family in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, from the Italian Capuleti.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.