chapter
English
/ˈt͡ʃæptə/, /ˈt͡ʃæptɚ/
noun
Definitions
- (authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
- A section of a social or religious body.
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- A decretal epistle.
- (obsolete) A location or compartment.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English chapiter derived from Old French chapitre derived from Latin capitulum (a chapter of a book, chapter, in Medieval Latin also a synod council, charter, council, heading, in der, a small head, ceb, a chapter, diminutive of m, title).
Origin
Latin
capitulum
Gloss
a chapter of a book, chapter, in Medieval Latin also a synod council, charter, council, heading, in der, a small head, ceb, a chapter, diminutive of m, title
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- c. English
- capitule English
- capitulum English
- chapiter English
- chapterful English
- chapterlike English
- chapterplay English
- interchapter English
- microchapter English
- midchapter English
- multichapter English
- play English
- subchapter English
- subsubchapter English
- tuomiokapituli Finnish
- capitellum Latin
- capitulare Latin
- capitulum Latin
- caput Latin
- recapitulo Latin
- capecchio Italian
- capitolo Italian
- capitoul French
- capitule French
- chapitre French
- cabildo Spanish, Castilian
- capítulo Spanish, Castilian
- kapittel Norwegian Bokmål
- capítulo Portuguese
- kapittel Norwegian Nynorsk
- chapiter Middle English
- kapítuli Old Norse
- chapitre Old French
- capítulo Galician
- tsapter Cebuano
- kapital Old High German
- caiptel Old Irish
- kapitel Middle High German
- cabidoo Old Portuguese
- chaipiteâ Bourguignon
- chaipitre Bourguignon
- kapitula Old Czech