Capitolineadj.n.
/kəˈpɪtəlʌɪn/, /kəˈpɪtl̩ʌɪn/, /ˈkapᵻtəlʌɪn/, /ˈkapᵻtl̩ʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈkæpədəˌlaɪn/ A. adj.
1. Designating, of, or relating to the smallest of the hills of Rome or the temple which formerly stood at its summit. Also: designating the gods worshipped there, esp. Jupiter. Cf. Capitol n. 1.In quot. ?a1439 with reference to the Capitol itself.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [adjective] > citadel
Capitoline?a1439
Capitolian1614
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [adjective] > relating to specific hill
Capitoline?a1439
Euganean1611
Tarpeiana1616
the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > of place associated with
Olympianc1487
Ortygian1582
Capitoline1620
society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > temple > [adjective]
templary1607
templar1728
Capitoline1838
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iv. l. 325 (MED) Marcus Manlius..gat hym a surname To be callid Marchus Capitolyne.
?1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Paradox sig. A7v It may be set in the towre Capitoline.
1572 R. Harrison tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes ii. xvii. 168 Hee came at the day appoynted vnto the Mounte Capitoline.
1620 Bp. J. Hall Honor Married Clergie ii. xii. 229 His Capitoline gods of Rome called England his Asse.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 508 Ammonian Jove, or Capitoline was seen. View more context for this quotation
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. lii. 238 A Colossus or statue of Apollo,..sent by Marcus Lucullus from Apollonia to Rome, where it was placed on the Capitoline mount.
1838 T. Arnold Hist. Rome I. v. 52 The massy substructions of the Capitoline temple.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 46 The Sabines, as it is..conjectured, had a settlement covering the Capitoline and Quirinal Hills.
1927 Travel Nov. 13 For many years Rome was dominated by the powerful Etruscan dynasty of the Tarquins, who are said to have built..the Capitoline temple.
1977 W. L. MacDonald in S. Kostof Architect 31 A mosaic plan preserved in the Capitoline Museum in Rome is very interesting.
2003 Philadelphia Inquirer Mag. 16 Feb. 14/1 He is presiding at the top of the Capitoline Hill, site of the ancient temple of Jupiter.
2. Chiefly U.S. Of or relating to the Capitol in Washington or the capitol building in a particular State. Cf. Capitol n. 2.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [adjective] > relating to South American or U.S.
congressional1775
Capitoline1834
1834 U.S. Tel. (Washington, D.C.) 17 Dec. 57/6 He wields not only his white wand at the white house in Washington, but the black rod on the capitoline hill at Albany.
1837 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 13 Sept. I dwell on New York politics with this minuteness, because, be incredulous in Washington as you may, Rome is here! You make law on Capitoline Hill, but we make you, and your principles for you.
1846 Raleigh Reg. & N. Carolina Gaz. 20 Jan. 3/3 Confine ridiculous nonsense at that, Mr. Ingersoll, to the Capitoline cock-pit.
1873 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Oct. 383/1 The silvery Capitoline dome at Washington floats up from among its garden trees.
1906 Nation (N.Y.) 9 Aug. 120 The descent of that grave historian..upon the capitoline lobby.
1937 W. Hegemann & R. N. Anshen City Planning Housing II. xxvii. 392 Thus it is wise, in accounting for the current capitoline civic art, to disassociate it from the L'Enfant plan.
1980 Cruise Trav. Sept. 34/2 A great capitoline dome is surmounted by a smaller one.
2003 Washington Post 15 May c11/1 Until the 1790s, Capitol Hill was names Jenkins Hill. It was renamed Capitoline Hill by our early leaders, who wanted Roman grandeur there.
B. n.
The Capitoline Hill in Rome (see sense A. 1).
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > specific
tower hillc1480
Capitoline1549
Quirinal1569
palatine1656
Euganean1882
mogote1928
1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 26 Cicero calleth it in many places the habitacion of the goddes: and Virgile the golden Capitoline.
1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible ii. 161 The names of the 7. Hils are thus tearmed, Palatine, Capitoline, Aventine, Exquiline, Celius, Viminal, Quirinal.
1695 L. Echard Rom. Hist. I. i. i. 13 Tatius encamp'd between the Capitoline and Quirinal, but found 'em too well fortify'd to be attack'd.
1769 O. Goldsmith Rom. Hist. I. 17 The Sabines being thus possessed of the Capitoline, had the advantage of continuing the war at their pleasure.
1822 Q. Rev. July 335 They [sc. the Romans] never built copies or ‘examples’ of Grecian buildings... They did not enter the Forum beneath the Propylea, nor did they copy the Parthenon upon the proud Capitoline.
1889 J. H. Vincent & J. R. Joy Outl. Hist. Rome iii. 73 In 384 B. C., Manlius, who had kept the Capitoline against the Gauls, was thrown from its cliffs as a punishment for paying the debts of bankrupt plebians.
1919 A. K. Porter Seven who Slept Pref. 28 The hordes of Alaric howled on the desolated Capitoline.
1971 F. G. Moore Roman's World xii. 374 We may imagine ourselves standing upon the roof of a great new building across the western end of the Forum and against the slope of the Capitoline.
1999 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 7 Aug. t5 The views..over to the dome of St Peter's or across to the Capitoline, can't be much changed.
2007 S. Saylor Roma ix. 434 Elections were no longer held atop the cramped Capitoline, but on the Field of Mars outside the city walls.
Compounds
Capitoline games n. [after classical Latin lūdī Capitōlīnī] games held in ancient Rome in honour of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, to celebrate the dedication of his temple on the Capitoline hill.The Capitoline games, which may date from the 6th cent. b.c., were reinstituted after a period of neglect by Domitian in 86 a.d., and held every four years until their abolition in the 4th cent.
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > series of, as public spectacle > in ancient world > specific
Olympiada1456
Nemean games1559
Panathenaea1578
Pythian games1579
Olympian Gamesa1586
Olympic Games1597
Isthmian games1603
Pythic games1603
Capitoline games1609
Olympics1621
Panathenaics1678
Nemean festival1844
1609 P. Holland Chronol. sig. Ciijv in tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. Pupienus Maximus, and Balbinus, were at Rome, by the Prætorian souldiers killed, in the time of the Capitoline Games.
1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 6 In the time of this Emperor [sc. Constantine]..the Capitoline games were abolished.
1860 Rep. Supreme Court Illinois 23 494 Such were the Olympic and Nemean games among the Greeks..and Apollinarian and Capitoline games among the Romans.
2006 H. I. Flower Art of Forgetting ii. ix. 267 His [sc. Pliny the Younger's] call for the abolition of the similar Capitoline games in Rome is an attack on Domitian's legacy.
Capitoline Triad n. (in Roman religion and mythology): a group of three deities (Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva) worshipped in the temple on the Capitoline hill; = Capitoline Trinity n.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > group of three
Capitoline Trinity1678
triada1746
Capitoline Triad1853
1853 Jrnl. Sacred Lit. July 492 This conjunction of divinities, wherein Diana holds the place of Juno at Rome, can represent says this great antiquary, but the Capitoline triad of Capua.
1929 Illustr. London News 27 Apr. 13/1 The temple..has now been identified..with the Temple of the Capitoline Triad, Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.
1997 R. J. Schork Lat. & Rom. Culture in Joyce iv. 76 These supernatural beings and forces range from the Capitoline triad who ensured the security of the city to the Lares and Penates who guarded the produce and property of each household.
2009 M. Lipka Rom. Gods i. 17 Jovian worship did not focus only on the sanctuary of the Capitoline triad, but also on the entire Capitoline hill.
Capitoline Trinity n. = Capitoline Triad n.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > group of three
Capitoline Trinity1678
triada1746
Capitoline Triad1853
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 451 It may justly be suspected..that there was yet some higher and more sacred Mystery, in this Capitoline Trinity, aimed at; namely a Trinity of Divine Hypostases.
1784 H. Taylor Apol. Benjamin Ben Mordecai (ed. 2) 198 In the Capitoline Trinity, Jupiter, and his wife Juno, and his daughter Minerva.
1818 C. A. Moysey Doctr. Unitarians Examined ii. 51 The Samothracian Cabiri were the origin of the Capitoline Trinity at Rome.
1928 Times 14 May 17/5 Her [sc. Dougga's] crowning glory was the Temple of the Capitoline Trinity—Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.
2003 E. Champlin Nero 220 The priests sacrificed..on the Capitol, to the Capitoline trinity of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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