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Borrowed from Latin capitulum. Doublet of chapiter and chapter.

capitulum (plural capitulums or capitula)

1. (botany) A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base.

   Synonyms: capitellum, sphaeridium

2. (arachnology) The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome.

   Synonym: capitellum

3. (anatomy) A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.

   Synonym: capitellum

4. (entomology, obsolete) The enlarged end of a proboscis.
5. (typography, obsolete) The symbol ⸿. It was used to mark chapters or paragraphs, and is the ancestor of the pilcrow (¶).

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

From caput (“head”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix). Compare typologically Ancient Greek κεφάλαιον (kephálaion), Bulgarian глава (glava), Russian глава́ (glavá), Serbo-Croatian поглавље.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaˈpɪ.tʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kaˈpiː.tu.lum]

capitulum n (genitive capitulī); second declension (diminutive of caput)

1. A head-like object or structure.
2. (Late Latin) A chapter, either:
   1. A prominent section or formal division of a text.
   2. Various civic and ecclesiastical councils or bodies, as cathedral chapters.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• capitellum
• capitulātim

• “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, 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 (16 July 2016 (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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