The corpus record — Latin

capitulum1

capitulum1 · n

a small head

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Where it lives

De Monogamia 4 · 5.73/10k
De Architectura 22 · 3.82/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
Adversus Praxean 2 · 1.35/10k
Ad Nationes 2 · 1.34/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. căpĭtŭlum — Lewis & Short

căpĭtŭlum, i, n.dim.caput.

I Lit., a small head, of man or beast: operto capitulo bibere, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 14.— Hence, in the lang. of comedy, for a man, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 89; and as a term of endearment: o capitulum lepidissimum, most charming creature, Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 25: haedi, Cels. 2, 22.—

B Of plants: caepae, Col. 11, 3, 15: sarmenti, id. 3, 77, 4: torcularii, Cato, R. R. 18, 4 al. (perh. also ramulorum, Plin. 24, 19, 113, § 173; 27, 5, 20, § 37; cf. capitellum).—

II Transf.

A In architecture.

1 The capital or chapiter of a column, Vitr. 3, 3; 4, 1; Plin. 36, 23, 56, § 178 sq.—

2 The capital of a triglyph, Vitr. 4, 3, 8.—

3 The cross-beam of warlike engines, Vitr. 1, 1; 10, 17.—

B In late Lat., a covering for the head of females, Isid. Orig. 19, 31, 3; cf. Varr. ap. Non. p. 542, 30.—

C Also late Lat., a prominent part or division of a writing, a chapter, section, Tert. adv. Jud. 9, 19; Hier. in Ezech. c. 47 fin.—

D A section of a law, Cod. Just. 5, 37, 28.—

E The raising of recruits (as an office), Cod. Th. 11, 16, 15.

2. Căpĭtŭlum — Lewis & Short

Căpĭtŭlum, i, n.,

I a town of the Hernici in Latium, now perh. Paliano, Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 63.—Hence, Căpĭtŭlen-ses, ĭum, m., the inhabitants of Capitulum, Dig. 50, 15, 8, § 7.

In the wild

capitulo Tertullian, De Scorpiace 2
capitulo Tertullian, De idolatria 19
capitulo Tertullian, Ad Nationes 1.18
capitula Tertullian, Ad Nationes 1.10
capitula Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.8.p2
capitulorum Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.12.2.p1

6 of 67 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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