capitulum
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See also: Capitulum
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin capitulum. Doublet of chapiter and chapter.
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]densely clustered inflorescence — see flower head
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From caput (“head”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kaˈpi.tu.lum/, [käˈpɪt̪ʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈpi.tu.lum/, [käˈpiːt̪ulum]
Noun
[edit]capitulum n (genitive capitulī); second declension (diminutive of caput)
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | capitulum | capitula |
genitive | capitulī | capitulōrum |
dative | capitulō | capitulīs |
accusative | capitulum | capitula |
ablative | capitulō | capitulīs |
vocative | capitulum | capitula |
Synonyms
[edit]- (Late Latin: prominent part or division of a writing): caput
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Asturian: cabildu, cabidru; → capítulu
- → Catalan: capítol
- → Old English: capitul
- → English: capitulum, capitule
- → French: capitule
- → Romanian: capitul
- Galician: cabido; → capítulo
- → Old High German: kapital
- Italian: capecchio; → capitolo
- → Old French: chapitre
- → Old Irish: caiptel
- Portuguese: cabido; → capítulo
- Sicilian: capicchiu; → capìtulu
- Spanish: cabildo
- → English: cabildo
- → Spanish: capítulo
- → Cebuano: kapitulo
- → Romanian: capitol
- → Middle Welsh: cabidwl
- Welsh: cabidwl
References
[edit]- “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[1], 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
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