English

aldercap

From alder + cap.

A compound of alder + cap

Proto-Germanic *aluz

Proto-West Germanic *aluʀu

Old English alor

Middle English aldre ‘an alder’

English alder

Latin caput ‘head’

Late Latin cappa ‘cap, hood, cape’

Proto-West Germanic *kappā ‘covering, hood, mantle’

Old English cæppe ‘cap, hood’

Middle English cappe ‘cap’

English cap

Today it means

noun Any of various fungi of the cosmopolitan genus Naucoria, family Hymenogastraceae.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / aldercap