capítulo

Portuguese

/kɐ.ˈpi.tu.lu/, /ka.ˈpi.tu.lu/

noun
Definitions
  • chapter (section in a book)
  • chapter (administrative division of an organization)

Etymology

Borrowed 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), caput (head, etc, source) derived from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*kauput-

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