# capitulum
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capitulum. Doublet of chapiter and chapter.

### Noun

capitulum (plural capitulums or capitula)
* (botany) A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base.
* (arachnology) The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome.
* (anatomy) A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
* (entomology, obsolete) The enlarged end of a proboscis.
* (typography, obsolete) The symbol ⸿. It was used to mark chapters or paragraphs, and is the ancestor of the pilcrow (¶).

#### Synonyms

* capitellum

#### Derived terms

* capituliform

#### Translations
## Latin
### Alternative forms

* (part or division of a writing): cap., c.

### Etymology

From caput (“head”) +‎ -ulum (diminutive suffix).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kaˈpi.tu.lum/, [käˈpɪt̪ʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kaˈpi.tu.lum/, [käˈpiːt̪ulum]

### Noun

capitulum n (genitive capitulī); second declension (diminutive of caput)
* A head-like object or structure.
* (Late Latin) A chapter, either:
** A prominent section or formal division of a text.
** Various civic and ecclesiastical councils or bodies, as cathedral chapters.

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

#### Synonyms

* (Late Latin: prominent part or division of a writing): caput

#### Derived terms

* capitellum
* capitulātim

#### Descendants

* Asturian: cabildu, cabidru; → capítulu
* → Catalan: capítol
* → Old English: capitul
* → English: capitulum, capitule
* → French: capitule
** → Romanian: capitul
* Galician: cabido; → capítulo
* → Old High German: kapital
** Middle High German: kapitel
*** German: Kapitel, Capitel (obsolete)
**** → Swedish: kapitel
**** → Danish: kapitel
**** → Norwegian Bokmål: kapitel
**** → Norwegian Nynorsk: kapitel
* Italian: capecchio; → capitolo
* → Old French: chapitre
** French: chapitre
** → Middle English: chapiter
*** English: chapiter
*** English: chapter, chapiter, chapitre, chapiture, chaptre, chapyter, chapytre, chaptire
**** → Cebuano: tsapter
** Walloon: tchaptrê, tchapite
* → Old Irish: caiptel
** Irish: caibidil
** Scottish Gaelic: caibideil
* Portuguese: cabido; → capítulo
* Sicilian: capicchiu; → capìtulu
* Spanish: cabildo
** → English: cabildo
* → Spanish: capítulo
** → Cebuano: kapitulo
* → Romanian: capitol
* → Middle Welsh: cabidwl
** Welsh: cabidwl

### References

* “capitulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “capitulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* capitulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* capitulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “capitulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* capitulum in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “capitulum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
* “capitulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin