Latin

Noun

capitellum n ‎(genitive capitellī); second declension

1. small head
2. capital or chapiter of a column

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

References

• capitellum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• CAPITELLUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “capitellum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.