Editing Cappuccino (section)

===Etymology===
{{lang|it|Cappuccino}} comes from [[Latin]] {{lang|la|caputium}}, later borrowed in German/Austrian and modified into {{lang|de|Kapuziner}}. It is the diminutive form of {{lang|it|cappuccio}} in Italian, meaning {{gloss|hood}} or something that covers the head, thus {{lang|it|cappuccino}} literally means {{gloss|small capuchin}}.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}

The coffee beverage has its name not from the ''hood'' but from the ''color'' of the hooded robes worn by [[friar]]s and [[nun]]s of the [[Capuchin order]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/where-do-we-get-cappuccino-from|title=Where Does the Name 'Cappuccino' Come From?|work=Merriam-Webster|access-date=2018-09-24|archive-date=2018-09-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924185808/https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/where-do-we-get-cappuccino-from|url-status=live}}</ref> This color is quite distinctive, and ''capuchin'' was a common description of the color of red-brown in 17th-century Europe. The Capuchin friars chose the particular design of their orders' robes both in color and shape of the hood back in the 16th century, inspired by [[Francis of Assisi]]'s preserved 13th-century vestments. The long and pointed hood was characteristic and soon gave the brothers the nickname "capuchins" (hood-wearing). It was, however, the choice of red-brown as the order's vestment color that, as early as the 17th century, saw "capuchin" used also as a term for a specific color. While Francis of Assisi used uncolored and unbleached wool for his robes, the Capuchins colored their vestments to differ from Augustinians, Benedictines, Franciscans, and other orders.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}

The word {{lang|it|cappuccino}}, in its Italian form, appears in Italian writings in the 19th century and is described as "black coffee with a few drops of milk or cream which give it the color the tunic of the Capuchins, from which it takes its name".<ref name="Monitore">{{cite journal |date=1885 |title=Atti della Santa Sede |journal=Il Monitore Ecclesiastico |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y9kvAAAAYAAJ |volume=IV |issue=I |location=Conversano |publisher=Presso la Direzione del Monitore Ecclesiastico |page=194 |quote="...un altro di bevere un cappuccino (caffè con latte)." |access-date=2023-01-28 |archive-date=2023-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128055048/https://books.google.com/books?id=y9kvAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Angiolini">{{cite book |last=Angiolini |first=Francesco |date=1897 |title=Vocabolario milanese-italiano coi segni per la pronuncia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PZMWAAAAMAAJ |location=Torino – Roma – Milano – Firenze – Napoli |publisher=Ditta G. B. Paravia e Comp. |page=183 |quote="Cappuccino: caffè nero con poche gocce di latte o panna che gli dànno il colore della tonaca dei cappuccini e da ciò prende il nome.." |access-date=2023-01-28 |archive-date=2023-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128055047/https://books.google.com/books?id=PZMWAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>