chapel

The story

1. Late Latin · derived fromcappella“little cloak; chapel”
2. Old French · derived fromchapele
3. Middle English · inherited fromchapele
4. English todaychapel

From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle. Displaced native Old English bēdhūs. (printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.