chapter (section in a book) · chapter (administrative division of an organization)
çekim: çoğul capítulos
köken: Borrowed from Late Latin capitulum (“chapter”), diminutive Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-. Compare the inherited doublet cabido.
chapter (college of honour conferring certain decorations and orders) · chapter (ecclesiastical body) · chapter (college of canons at a cathedral or collegiate church)
çekim: çoğul kapituły · tamlayan kapituły
köken: Borrowed from Old Czech kapitula, from Latin capitulum.
A head-like object or structure. · A chapter, either: · Various civic and ecclesiastical councils or bodies, as cathedral chapters.
çekim: çoğul capitula · tamlayan capitulī
eş: caput
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Italic *kaput Latin caput Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulum Latin capitulum From caput (“head”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix). Compare typologically Ancient Greek κεφάλαιον (kephálaion), Bulgarian глава (glava), Russian глава́ (glavá), Serbo-Croatian поглавље.
part, paragraph or passage in a text · section · episode
çekim: çoğul afsnittene · tamlayan afsnits
köken: From German Abschnitt (“section, paragraph, segment”).
Etimoloji
In the sense of “clerical body” inherited from Middle High German kapitel, capittel, from Latin capitulum. In the sense of “text section” a later borrowing from the same source (ca. 1500). Occasional Old High German kapital, kapitula had no sustained continuation in Middle High German.