chapiteau
French
noun
Definitions
- a circus tent, or any similar set-up used for spectacles or events
- (architecture) the capital of a column, baluster or similar structure
- (aeronautics) the conical part at the front end of a rocket
- (chemistry) the top part of an alembic, where condensation occurs
Etymology
Inherited from Old French chapitel derived from Latin capitellum, 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
- cadel English
- capitellum English
- capitule English
- capitulum English
- tuomiokapituli Finnish
- capitellum Latin
- capitis, caput Latin
- capitulare Latin
- capitulum Latin
- caput Latin
- recapitulo Latin
- Kapitell German
- capecchio Italian
- capitello Italian
- capitolo Italian
- cadet French
- capitoul French
- capitule French
- cabdillo Spanish, Castilian
- cabildo Spanish, Castilian
- capítulo Spanish, Castilian
- caudillo Spanish, Castilian
- kapitel Norwegian Bokmål
- kapittel Norwegian Bokmål
- kapitél Norwegian Bokmål
- capítulo Portuguese
- kapittel Norwegian Nynorsk
- kapítuli Old Norse
- šapitó Czech
- chapitel Old French
- chapitre Old French
- cabdell Catalan, Valencian
- capítulo Galician
- căpețel Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- kapital Old High German
- caiptel Old Irish
- шапито Bulgarian
- kapitel Middle High German
- cabidoo Old Portuguese
- capdet Occitan
- capdel Old Occitan
- cabdiello Old Spanish
- chaipiteâ Bourguignon
- chaipitre Bourguignon
- kapitula Old Czech