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1. Latin · derived fromcapitulum“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”
2. Old French · derived fromchapitre
3. Middle English · inherited fromchapitre
4. English todaychapter

From Middle English chapitre, from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), diminutive of caput (“a head”); see capital, capitulum, and chapiter, which are doublets of chapter.

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