Translation
chapter
Word origin
From Latin capitulum, a little head, the diminutive of caput ('head'). Sections of a book were headed, so each heading became a chapter, and the same road gave English capital and captain.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- capitulum
- English cognates
- chapter, capital, captain
Examples
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I read the last chapter of the novel.
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Every chapter has twenty pages.
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That chapter is the longest in the book.
divides a book; divides something larger and something smaller and drier. Do not let the opening syllable pull it towards , the hat, which comes from Latin cappa and is unrelated despite both starting ĉap-. That is a coincidence of borrowing, not a shared root.
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