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- Latin · borrowed fromCapitōlium“Capitoline Hill, its temples; similar citadels”
- English todayCapitolium
From Latin Capitōlium (“Capitoline Hill, its temples; similar citadels”), from the oblique stem of caput (“head”) + -ō (noun-forming suffix) or -ōlus (“-ole”, diminutive suffix) + -ium (suffix forming place names). Doublet of capitol and capitoul.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.