capitule

See also: capitulé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin capitulum (“chapter”) (diminutive of Latin caput (“head”)).

Noun

capitule (plural capitules)

1. (obsolete) A summary.
   • 1838, Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, “The Scripture Testimony to the Messiah: an Inquiry with a view to a Satisfactory Determination ofthe Doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures concerning the person of Christ”, in The Eclectic Review, volume 3, number 67, page 294:

     In the Capitule headed · Miscellaneous declarations of Christ, intimating the existence and action of a Superior Nature in himself, we find (p. 295) an interesting addition to the text, the concluding sentence of which is so characteristic of the author's love of justice, that without pretending to ascribe to Dr. Smith the monopoly of that virtue, it would, ahd his work been published ananymously, have gone far towards revealing him.

   • 1901, Ezra Stiles, Franklin Bowditch Dexter, The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Jan. 1, 1769-Mar. 13, 1776, page 639:

     On 2^d Nov. the Capitul was signed & frid^y 3^d we took possession.

   • 2016, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Merchant Networks in the Early Modern World, 1450–1800:

     In 1514, Dimitri Caloiri of loannina asked for and obtained reductions in Anconitan customs duties on behalf of Greek merchants of loannina, Arta, and Vlona. The “capitule” also specify the items brought .by these Ottoman Greeks to the port of Ancona; silk and camlets headed the list which also included carpets, leather, and wax.

2. (Roman Catholicism) Synonym of chapter: a reading at one of the canonical hours.
   • 1856, Martin Wilson Foye, Romish Rites, Offices, and Legends, page 202:

     At Vespers the following is sung, after the Capitule:

   • 1872, Guild of st. Alban, Church work - Volume 2, page 275:

     In the capitule, and the responsory which follows it, we recall to the memory of our Lord, in the words of his prophet — or, rather, of the Church, to whose sentiments theprophet gives expression— the fact that we are by no means strangers in his sight.

   • 1930, Restif de La Bretonne, Havelock Ellis, Monsieur Nicolas; Or, The Human Heart Unveiled:

     We collected ourselves, and as the man, I led; the Sister said the alternate verses, and I the capitule and the prayer, and everything that usually falls to the celebrant.

   • 2014, Benjamin W. Farley, By the Waters of Babylon: Meditations on the Psalms for the Solace and Renewal of the Soul, page 100:

     Finally, by evening time and the hour of the capitule, the brotherhood joined in laughing about america's taste for “turkey” and the fact that Franklin preferred the ruffled gobbler to the stately bald eagle.

3. (botany) The flowering head that terminates a stem, a flower or flower head.
   • 1850, M. Herincq, “French Daisy Chrysanthemums”, in The Gardeners' Magazine of Botany, volume 1, page 114:

     In this country the merits of the Chrysanthemum are already appreciated, and for some years it has acquired considerable repute, which is chiefly owing to the facility with which it doubles its capitules, and modifies the colours of its flowers. At the present day a great number of varieties are in cultivation, some of them with flowers dark purple, nearly black, rose, white, orange, yellow; sometimes we find a single capitule or head with two different colours; other varieties are distinguished by the form of their flowers, which constitute rayed capitules, partly or entirely ligulate; and partly or entirely tubular.

   • 1875, Frederick William Burbidge, The Narcissus, page 29:

     These I take to be the shrunk up leaves that belong to the several deformed flowers of the capitule, and if you dissect the capitule you will find a succession of petals or leaves or whatever they be, becoming smaller and smaller until they are mere scales, and the more scale-like they are the more fleshy and the less leaf-like is their texture, and the suspicion my dawn upon you, as it has dawned upon me, that in my supposed capitule or head, or umbel, or many-flowered scape, we have not merely a number of monstrous flowers, but a number also of bulbs, stems, and leaves, all shrunk into leaf-like or scale-like processes, the double Daffodil being in reality a proliferous production, a sort of Pelion upon Ossa of a very lowly kind, and one of the most curious of all the vegetable monsters.

   • 1884, Ward and Lock, The universal instructor, or, Self-culture for all: A complete Encyclopoedia of Learning and Self-Education - Volume 1, page 622:

     Now and then, as in the case of the dense conical capitule of the teasel, the flowers open according to no definite order, so that the surface becomes irregularly patched.

   • 2019, Abraham H. Halevy, Handbook of Flowering: Volume II:

     Artichokes are used as fresh, canned or frozen vegetables — the receptacle (“bottom”) and the inner, soft bracts (“hearts”) are the edible parts of the capitule.

Anagrams

• cupalite

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.pi.tyl/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin capitulum. Doublet of chapitre.

Noun

capitule m (plural capitules)

1. (Roman Catholicism) chapter (reading at canonical hour)
2. (botany) capitulum, flower head

Descendants

• → Romanian: capitul

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

capitule

1. inflection of capituler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “capitule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Verb

capitule

1. inflection of capitular:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

capitule

1. inflection of capitular:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative