capucin

related to hood, cowl, from the Italian cappuccino (capuchin) literally "one who wears a hood" because of the particularly conspicuous cowl worn by these religious, from cappuccio ("hood"). The Capuchins constitute a congregation of the Order of Friars Minor erected by bull of July 3, 1528; the authorization to establish beyond the Alps was granted in May 1574, the first attestation, by Rabelais, dates from 1542, the Frenchification into capuchin is regular, capucin, originally dialectal, eventually prevailed.