myEtymology.com: French etymology of capitel

Etymology of the French word capitel

the Old French word capitel

derived from the Late Latin word capitellum (small head; capital, chapiter of a column)

derived from the Latin word capitulum (chapter, article; religious; little head; piles, hemorrhoids)

derived from the Latin word caput (head; small head; head; head; head; head; person; life; heading; chapter, principal division)

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kaput- (head)

English capital

Word found in Old French