capero

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

căpĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [cf. Sanscr. kamp-, to tremble] (ante- and postclass.).

I Act. , to wrinkle , to draw together in wrinkles : rugis frontem contrahere, a frontibus crispis caprorum, Non. p. 8, 31: frons caperata, Pac. ap. Non. p. 204, 30 (Trag. Rel. p. 107 Rib.): caperatum supercilium, Ap. Met. 9, 16, 5; vela, furled , id. Flor. n. 23.—

II Neutr. , to be wrinkled , Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 3 (also in Non. p. 9, 1).