myEtymology.com: Italian etymology of capitello

Etymology of the Italian word capitello

the Italian word capitello

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)

Romanian capitel

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